Sentence examples for ridiculous object from inspiring English sources

James refrains from ever saying exactly what manufactured article made the Newsome family fortune ("a small, trivial, rather ridiculous object of the commonest domestic use"), whereas Ozick bluntly informs us that Marvin earns his money from "plastic airplane parts".

She wants Francine to take a chafing dish that she and her husband, Russ Frank Woodd), have no use for, but what would Francine do with such a ridiculous object?

It is a ridiculous object: Too garish for the solemn purpose of self-defense, it is similarly inappropriate for hunting, in which animals are not imagined to be in conflict with the United States.

What if I put him head-to-head with a ridiculous object and it gained some traction?

These crumbling, unstable, "loveliest, most ridiculous" objects decorate Trevor Cole's smart novel, providing evidence of something just as compelling as criminal wrongdoing: character.

Maybe You Shouldn't Buy That is a blog about ridiculous objects, devices, and modifications that nobody in their right mind would pay for.

PS1 is a museum that was once a school, and the NYABF is a big craft fair full of ridiculous objects both beautiful and stupid.

The Tumblr Photoshoplooter, which collects images of ridiculous objects photoshopped onto pictures of teenagers running amok in the city centres of England.

Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous.

This may sound faintly ridiculous, but the finished object looks like a deeply satisfying classical column.

In 1776, the English radical Thomas Day had written, "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves".