ILLOGICAL in a Sentence

Learn ILLOGICAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for ILLOGICAL, such as:

1. You reproach us women with being illogical.
2. It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
3. It is illogical to assume you can do the work of three people.
4. It is illogical to oppose the repatriation of economic migrants.
5. It is an illogical statement, because if one part is true, then the other must be false.

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 Meanings and Examples of ILLOGICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
illogical
 a.  not reasonable, wise, or practical, because of the emotions
Classic Sentence:
1  You reproach us women with being illogical.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
2  Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
3  The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
4  Selden knew that Bertha would fight to the last round of powder: the rashness of her conduct was illogically combined with a cold determination to escape its consequences.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  It is illogical to assume you can do the work of three people.
2  It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
3  It is illogical to oppose the repatriation of economic migrants.
4  It is an illogical statement, because if one part is true, then the other must be false.