Sentence examples for been preposterous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Absurd, or contrary to common sense.
The fuss has been preposterous.
So this notion that the people we happened to have in Guantánamo couldn't be released has always been preposterous.
On rare occasions when she had bought a pair they were always 'bargains', so cheap that it would have been preposterous and unreasonable to have expected them to be fitted to the hand.
I'm all for a good story line, but the adulation of Frank at the expense of coherent analysis of the Nets' precarious prospects in the playoffs has been preposterous.
JERSEY CITY — Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy knows that a decade ago, the idea of a golf tournament here — one featuring Tiger Woods and a national television audience, no less — would have been preposterous.
Homeowners have had to decide quickly whether to sell out or pour more money in to fix storm-damaged homes, as the real estate speculators who have descended on these areas make offers that would have been preposterous just two months ago.
Their accusation is preposterous.
The notion is preposterous.
But this is preposterous.
That would be preposterous.
