Sentence examples for a preposterous suggestion from inspiring English sources

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At the time (and now, to some) this was a preposterous suggestion, contrary to all known experience.

It was a preposterous suggestion and he avoided returning to the topic, but it precisely chimed with anti-Washington anger.

That the same priests might end up undressing one another would then have been a preposterous suggestion.

It was, similarly, a preposterous suggestion that the Prime Minister shouldn't wear tails to the royal wedding for fear of looking too grand in austere times – I can't think of a posher occasion to save them for.

"The answer to your question, 'Is it the Australian government's intention to use this legislation to target people?' is that it is a preposterous suggestion which I dismiss with complete contempt".

A "positive" right to die would require not just doctors, but the rest of us, to help suicides kill themselves.Although this seems a preposterous suggestion, it does follow from many of the arguments put forward by those advocating euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

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That is a preposterous proposition.

It's a preposterous proposition, and dangerous.

"Why don't we get a heated driveway," he suggested, a clearly reasonable alternative to my preposterous suggestion.

He said that the gifts were from little June, and James was angry that he had to accept the preposterous suggestion that a baby could go out and buy toys.

That preposterous suggestion may have anticipated a change in the Saudi story; CNN reported that the regime was preparing to admit that Mr. Khashoggi died in an interrogation gone wrong.

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