Sentence examples for preposterous in from inspiring English sources

"The whole incident seemed preposterous in the light of day".

It looks preposterous in front of the manor, and the sight seems to delight him.

"Oh, Gerald could be preposterous in those days," one of their best friends recalls.

And it already sounded pretty preposterous in May when it was first released..

Likewise, the Cardinals' Larry Walker looks almost preposterous in the No. 2 hole.

It also represents another polarity of the art world, just as preposterous in all its piety.

Cattail can be in preposterous abundance in lakes and bays.

His stat lines in the decisive contests were preposterous: 41-16-7-3-3 in Game 5, 41-8-11-4-3 in Game 6, 27-11-11-2-3 in Sunday's clincher – only the third triple-double ever in Game 7 of the finals.

Of all the preposterous things in HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (1992), a loopy film whose climax involves skydiving Elvis impersonators, the most preposterous is that James Caan, as a gambler who wants to steal Sarah Jessica Parker from Nicolas Cage, also steals the movie.

Their implausible, cutesy-poo meeting and its sentimental payoff are drawn out in a preposterous subplot in which Sam, who could face charges of kidnapping, lets the boy, Rasheen, stay in his apartment after feebly trying to deliver him to the proper authorities.

"In some ways you'd be the most preposterous figure in the crowd, and in some ways the wisest".