PREPOSTEROUS in a Sentence

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For PREPOSTEROUS, below is one of 13 sentences:
At this point I agreed with you that it was preposterous and was glad to find that all my deductions had been correct.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREPOSTEROUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
preposterous
 a.  contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; very silly or stupid; ridiculous
Classic Sentence:
1  When she awoke the next morning, he was gone and had it not been for the rumpled pillow beside her, she would have thought the happenings of the night before a wild preposterous dream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
2  He led her through the throng of returning holiday-makers, past sallow-faced girls in preposterous hats, and flat-chested women struggling with paper bundles and palm-leaf fans.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  She told herself that her sensitiveness was preposterous, but daily she was thrown into panic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Now that she had carried out her preposterous impulse to see what he was like, she was cold, she was as ready to detect familiarities as the virtuous Miss Ella Stowbody.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  This seems to me perfectly preposterous and uncalled for.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
6  Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  It was the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
8  For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which compelled our respect.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  At this point I agreed with you that it was preposterous and was glad to find that all my deductions had been correct.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
10  The first is the making of Pycroft write a declaration by which he entered the service of this preposterous company.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
11  As I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's room, my education under that preposterous female terminated.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
12  Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars were, I was conscious of a sort of dignity in the look.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  We all know the fact that grounds for such lawsuits are often preposterous, so they just waste money of taxpayers.