Sentence examples for may sound improbable from inspiring English sources

This may sound improbable.

And it may sound improbable that a cryptographer is also an attorney.

It may sound improbable, given what followed, but on that morning I had no thoughts of causing Jocelyn any harm.

This may sound improbable, or mad, but we were young and blindly confident that the dictatorship would collapse sooner or later.

It may sound improbable, but by the time a person becomes an adult, there are more bacterial cells in the body than human cells.

It may sound improbable, given the junk-food associations once attached to the man's name, but few phrases are more bankable to restaurants around the world than this: "Bill Clinton ate here".

The number may sound highly improbable, given that a political convention only lasts for four days.

This sequence of events may sound highly improbable, but Ms. Tartt is adept at harnessing all the conventions of the Dickensian novel — including startling coincidences and sudden swerves of fortune — to lend Theo's story a stark, folk-tale dimension as well as a visceral appreciation of the randomness of life and fate's sometimes cruel sense of humor.

A federal tax hike might sound improbable these days.

In the 21st century, Sharif Ali's regal ambitions may sound anachronistic or improbable, but history provides a precedent.

They may sound like an improbable way to solve the real problems on Mr. Itskov's laptop, or like the perfect gift for the superrich of the future.