Sentence examples for absurd requests from inspiring English sources

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Soon, participants began to respond to Collins's "absurd" requests.

How is he to make sense of such absurd requests?

Girls will make absurd requests of their fans: $900 shoes, $500 purses, deluxe box sets of The Sopranos, juicers made by Seth MacFarlane's dad, etc.

His absurd requests include asking a shopkeeper to sell him "a few centimeters" of yogurt, and telling friends to drink their beer "before it cools itself" or to "climb on top of a sheet of paper" in order to reach for clothes placed higher on a stand.

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It was an absurd request, and Mr. Cruz knew it.

But this is an absurd request for two reasons.

Roy and Kristin encounter each other as Roy carries out Sam's absurd request to sneak a monstrously expensive coffee machine into the hospital.

Mike Halkitis, the division director for the state attorney's office in New Port Richey, where the trial will be held, said that he fought the "absurd" request for a cosmetic cover-up last year, and that taxpayers should not have to pay for it.

He says it flippantly, as if this isn't an absurd request.

It's an absurd request of cowardice on the Browns' part and underscores just how inept NFL teams can be when handling domestic violence reports.

If you have some strange whim for a particular flavour they'll conjure something up in their ice-cream lab at the rear of the shop, given 48 hours' notice – the more absurd the request the better they like it.

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