Sentence examples for preposterous amount from inspiring English sources

"But whoever was selling it wanted $8,500, which was a preposterous amount of money at that time".

A preposterous amount of it goes on at Mission Pescadero, more than in your average college dormitory.

The result might also have been different in the St James's Palace Stakes had Stormy River not been set a preposterous amount to do against the favourite, Araafa.

Many families saved all year to buy a cow at Christmas, so there was suddenly a preposterous amount of beef in almost every compound in the village.

The preposterous amount of dialogue shoehorned into the "Shall we turn the cricket pitch into a memorial garden?" scene was ridiculous.

As with the first "Expendables," in 2010, Mr. Stallone has assembled a roster of prominent action stars, many of them noticeably past their prime, and a preposterous amount of explosives and heavy weaponry to enact a formulaic good-triumphs tale.

I made preposterous amounts of money.

One of the biggest reasons for the surge in people prepared to pay preposterous amounts to smugglers for the uncertain prospect of reaching safety in Italy is that land routes into Europe are virtually closed.

The ones we tried to photograph either threatened us with a hand motion that looked very much like they wanted to break the camera and our necks, or they asked for preposterous amounts of money.

Your column on billing errors states: "In the end, the idea of a scheme to bilk millions of people by tiny amounts sounds preposterous, even silly.

Bolstered by a wonderfully preposterous set and vast amounts of fire, they thunder through their shrewdly selected greatest hits with slick precision, exuding a mischievously imperious air.