Sentence examples for far-fetched ideas from inspiring English sources

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George, exhilerated by his success, believed that his most trivial and far-fetched ideas were godlike.

Murakami is normally a master of rendering even the most far-fetched ideas strangely plausible, but here he stumbles.

As far-fetched ideas about the survey ricocheted around the Internet, they realized that manna was falling on them from heaven.

Gender-swapping, random GBH, implied incest, and sexual comedy all make an appearance – but none of these seem far-fetched ideas to me, and certainly not dystopian nightmares.

When he's low on cash, he sells off a hundred invisible-dog leashes at $20 apiece; boxes of them still sit in the basement, a testament to the tenacity of far-fetched ideas.

To paraphrase Neil Kinnock, far-fetched ideas become pickled into "a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs…" And you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour MP – a Labour MP! – comparing himself to a taxi, to scuttle round promising ministerial contacts to corporate lobbyists.

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This is not a far-fetched idea.

It is not an entirely far-fetched idea.

It's not such a far-fetched idea.

Ignoring the seemingly far-fetched idea of armed citizens everywhere could be a deadly mistake.

Executives from RealNetworks, for example, say that technical parity is not such a far-fetched idea.

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