Sentence examples for somewhat preposterous from inspiring English sources
Paula Abdul was trashing Drew's somewhat preposterous dress, trying to blame the garment on Mr. Cowell.
Admittedly, it seems somewhat preposterous that simply processing scanned checks, as DataTreasury does, could be a patentable business method.
Living semi-rough and on the lam, Freddie finds himself stowing away on a grand and somewhat preposterous steamboat.
The somewhat preposterous consequence of this arrangement is that the news media rely heavily if not exclusively on the embargoed press releases in choosing stories to cover: perhaps because the embargo gives them time to prepare a good story but more compellingly because each news outlet realises all its competitors will run one.
Peter Firth plays the somewhat preposterous Sir Harry Pearce, an enigmatic intelligence chief who appears to go rogue after making a terrible mistake – now apparently on a mission to discover the Tinker-Tailor-type mole in the upper reaches of the service.
Barring unusual factors, like an early morning or a dog to let out, the idea of getting up, dusting off, and saying "sayonara" after doing the horizontal mambo is illogical, if not somewhat preposterous.
The preposterous length of the new book does include a vertiginous sensation, somewhat in the way of a "Where's Waldo?" cartoon: the text exceeds our ability to keep everything in our heads, to take it all in at once.
It's preposterous, but you buy it since the info drops during a tour of the very elegant, somewhat steampunky private underground system that can whisk agents from London to their manor outside of town.
Absolutely preposterous".
