Sentence examples for of the preposterous from inspiring English sources

A good friend recently treated me to one of the preposterous yet mostly true tales for which I prize him.

"Northanger's" heroine, Catherine Morland, dreams of being ravished in the manner of the preposterous Gothic novels she reads.

The offense had its share of problems -- the unit committed 11 of the preposterous 16 Giants penalties in the game.

The film is "an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November.

None of this will surprise an education secretary who has complained of the "preposterous" concentration of Etonians at the top of British public life.

Most importantly, rid us of the preposterous top-eight play-offs – but ease the pain of the Easter weekend while you're at it.

It wasn't Felool who sanctioned the arrests and imprisonment of numerous people for the preposterous charge of 'defaming religion' - including two children aged nine and ten.

Instead of repeating the preposterous claim that he is the voice of the people, Trump should listen to what we're saying.

A sharp piece of social satire, the book pulls apart the preposterous world of expatriate Hong Kong.

It is the preposterous hope of Jesus, as he prays in the garden of Gethsemane.

He called proposed seizure of the club preposterous.