Sentence examples for a doubtful idea from inspiring English sources

It is always a doubtful idea to make room for four arms on a jacket when nature counts but two.

What might have seemed a doubtful idea — the designer of vivid color and pattern draining away that signature exuberance — turned out to be a graceful fashion moment.

Such a library, as I imagined it then, "would not kowtow to the doubtful idea of a 'national' literature.

Quite apart from the doubtful idea that in Britain posh is the new black, the main reason the latest analogies don't work is that, socially and politically, Britain and America have diverged.To simplify, Britain has not had George Bush.

That may seem like a doubtful proposition.

She gave me a doubtful look.

A British summer is usually a doubtful, fleeting thing.

She had been a doubtful starter with a bruised heel.

douarrha had become a nomen dubium — a doubtful name.

I make a doubtful face, but she insists.

Longevity alone strikes me as a doubtful premise.