Sentence examples for a preposterous request from inspiring English sources

The night before I got married, my brother sat me down in a curry house in Ripon and asked me to give him all the reasons why this was the right thing to do and write them on a napkin…" This was a preposterous request because "commitment exceeds your capacity to explain it".

Since her son was standing next to me, it was really an effort to keep my composure while discreetly cursing her and the preposterous request.

He learns that asking for favors in a friendly and open way sometimes motivates strangers to say "yes" to his preposterous requests.

That's a preposterous position.

It's a preposterous notion.

It's a preposterous scenario.

This is a preposterous claim.

What a preposterous notion.

A preposterous idea?

That is a preposterous proposition.

A preposterous thing happened two days ago.