PLAUSIBLE in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for PLAUSIBLE, such as:
1. I still think it is the most plausible one.
2. He was so plausible that he conned everybody.
3. Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.
4. As always when he spoke, he sounded so plausible.
5. Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding.
2. He was so plausible that he conned everybody.
3. Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.
4. As always when he spoke, he sounded so plausible.
5. Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PLAUSIBLE
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plausible
a. apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful
a. given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments
Classic Sentence:
1 As always when he spoke, he sounded so plausible.
2 Prissy went off at a trot, the letter gripped in her hand, and Scarlett went back upstairs, trying to think of some plausible lie to explain Mrs. Elsing's failure to appear.
3 Mammy looked at her piercingly, just as she had done when Scarlett was small and had tried unsuccessfully to palm off plausible excuses for misdeeds.
4 Miss Melly will believe any plausible scoundrel.
5 But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
6 There was no longer any plausible pretext for delay; and Duncan was obliged, however reluctantly, to comply.
7 You are always taking something of that sort in your head," replied Minerva, "and that is why I cannot desert you in your afflictions; you are so plausible, shrewd and shifty.
8 Many a plausible tale did Ulysses further tell her, and Penelope wept as she listened, for her heart was melted.
9 It sounds plausible enough to-night,' said the Medical Man; 'but wait until to-morrow.
10 I still think it is the most plausible one.
11 He was a grey-haired man, with a plausible voice and careful manners.
12 Seeing his gloomy face as he frowned at his wife, the officers grew still merrier, and some of them could not refrain from laughter, for which they hurriedly sought plausible pretexts.
13 Yeah, that's all very plausible, what you're saying there," said the whip-man, "only I'm not the sort of person you can bribe.
14 Tom got out of the presence as quick as he plausibly could, and after that he complained of toothache for a week, and tied up his jaws every night.
15 It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.
Example Sentence:
1 Malcolm tried to come up with a plausible story to lull his mother's suspicions, but she didn't believe a word he said.
2 Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding.
3 Both sides are able to make a pretty plausible argument that the alteration is what they want it to be.
4 He was so plausible that he conned everybody.
5 In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.