Sentence examples for like preposterous from inspiring English sources

He'll use words like "preposterous" and "irrational" to describe what he sees as the wrongheaded thinking of his colleagues.

Suddenly, taking vacations and enjoying retirement no longer seemed like preposterous goals.

Others were digging in their heels and muttering words like preposterous.

When the fifth-grader Becky Botsford dons her red cape and spits out mouthfuls like "preposterous" and "bicker" and "cumbersome," her enemies — from the often-tongue-tied Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy (whose name is a chance for WordGirl to define "absurd") to the Butcher, who mangles words while hoarding meat — capitulate.

Singer Martin Fry, liked preposterous gold suits, while the rest of the band favoured skinny ties over school shirts.

Eliminativism may at first seem like a preposterous position.

The shocked protest that followed this last piece of legislation was like something preposterous out of the Victorian era.

Montreal was gripped by notions of grandeur in the 1960's that only a generation later look like a preposterous flight of fancy.

For Helen Vendler, it was Moore's public eccentricity, like her "preposterous exchanges with the Ford Motor Company over the naming of the Edsel".

To my knowledge, no movie character has ever shouted "Jesus, that's better, that wire has been cutting into my tit for hours" as they undress, for example, which seems like a preposterous oversight.

Entrusting a review of the Combined Code on corporate governance to the Financial Reporting Council - just like the preposterous appointment of Lord Laming to report on the working of his own reforms in child protection - simply guarantees a "steady as she goes" response.