Sentence examples for it seemed preposterous from inspiring English sources

Throwing them into prison seems preposterous now; it seemed preposterous then, too.

And four days ago, it seemed preposterous to suggest that he might this season.

Of course it seemed preposterous: the vast claims, comparisons to Proust, the peculiar specificity of Norway – when had I last read a living Norwegian?

To the people around the table, it seemed preposterous that the stimulating and welcoming country in which they had spent the past week could be characterised so unthinkingly.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 11 — At the end of May, it seemed preposterous to think that the Yankees would pick up Bobby Abreu's $16 million option for next season.

Over his career, his 35 broken bones made the Guinness Book of Records; his body rattled with pins and plates, and it seemed preposterous that he should have died in his bed, of pulmonary fibrosis.

It seems preposterous that the United States government or its agents would throw this teenage girl into a cage on an Air Force base.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

School for someone thirty inches high — it seems preposterous.

Yes, it seems preposterous on the face of it.

By these figures it seems preposterous to advance it as the world's second favourite.