How to use plausible in a sentence

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• His flabbergast was so great he couldn’t even come up with a plausible answer.From the entry flabbergast
• He doesn't get his hands dirty — that's what the henchmen and the plausible deniability are for.From the entry get one's hands dirty
• Paulis suggests that this similarity may be due to chance or folk etymology, which is plausible.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 66. From the entry emmenagogue
• New Money signals lack plausible deniability; they're too much on the nose.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 5, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry on the nose
• Extensive borehole information and tendered contract prices make these cost estimates much more plausible than earlier estimates.2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in Rail, page 51. From the entry borehole
• No longer is plausible deniability acceptable, either for boards or for management.2014 October 8, Davia Temin, “The Role Of Boards In Crisis”, in Forbes, retrieved 08 Jun 2015. From the entry deniability
• It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible.2009, David Crystal, Walking English, Overlook Press, page 183. From the entry nub
• For example, it seems plausible that English is a context free language.2006, Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §7.1. From the entry context-free grammar
• How plausible is it that a woman would fix an election because she's obsessed with me?2006, 01:44:42 from the start, in Man of the Year. From the entry hanging chad
• Since Skynet is presumably aware of its own origins, this makes the first film marginally less plausible.2005, Roz Kaveney, “Creation as Product: The Paradox of Franchises”, in From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film, London…. From the entry Skynet
• What would make belief in the ultimate comportability of all Stories' mandated actions a plausible belief?2004, Richard C. Prust, At the Interface - Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief - Probing the Boundaries, Radopi Publishing…. From the entry comportability
• This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.2003, Henry Cloud, Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know, page 286. From the entry nugget of truth
• Americans would stand out in the Laotian jungle, and Washington needed to retain plausible deniability.2001 June 24, Douglas C. Waller, “The Americans Left Behind”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jun 2015. From the entry plausible deniability
• If we have difficulty finding a plausible context, then we have such a sentence.1995, David Crystal, “Postilion Sentences”, in Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, volume 5, page 15. From the entry postilion sentence
• Polydamas' role becomes more plausible if we assume that he was not Makedonian at all but Pharsalian.1992, Waldemar Heckel, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire, page 360. From the entry Pharsalian
• And it is plausible to claim that an 'imperceptible benefit' is not a benefit.1986, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry imperceptible
• Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.1983, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), page 521. From the entry pauce
• In vain did the promoters of the new fad invoke plausible arguments.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
• The algorithmic nature of dynamic pricing also gives sellers plausible deniability; who's to say which data points were dispositive?2025 January, Amanda Mull, “Prices will vary: Dynamic pricing will go far beyond airfares and hotels, to many customers' dismay”, in…. From the entry dispositive
• Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry scarily
• However plausible such arguments, I should like respectfully to disagree.2021, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates, University Press of Kentucky, unnumbered page. From the entry Menippean
• T3 modulation of GABA A receptors therefore has a plausible significance in normal physiology, and apparent relevance to dysthyroid states.2015 October 1, “Interactions of L-3,5,4'-Triiodothyronine, Allopregnanolone, and Ivermectin with the GABA A Receptor: Evidence for…. From the entry dysthyroid
• But that was not deemed plausible, Mr.2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012. From the entry huddle
• Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law.2008 October 1, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail. From the entry mother-in-law
• Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 376. From the entry abeyance
• It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not.2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, page 153. From the entry fistwise
• The hawkers' athletic contrappostos, intellectual and imaginary rather than plausible, speak of the mind's superiority to the body.2002, Sean Shesgreen, “Broadsheet Cries and British Commerce”, in Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London…. From the entry contrapposto
• Indeed, another plausible view is the Floridisation of American politics, the idea that it is now in an exact two-party balance.2002 September 26, “Is America moving leftward?”, in The Economist, volume 364, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry Floridization
• But surely there are other plausible meanings.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order. From the entry ferment
• This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.2001, Michael W. Vasey, Mark R. Dadds, The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety, page 195. From the entry water fear
• We consider a hypothesis of missing diversity plausible if the probability of complete nonpreservation of the group is at least 0.5.1999 February 26, Mike Foote et al., “Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of…. From the entry nonpreservation
• Thus, we have a plausible argument for haecceitism.1986, Gary Rosenkrantz, “On Objects Totally Out of this World”, in Rudolf Haller, editor, Non-existence and Predication [Grazer…. From the entry haecceitism
• As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19. From the entry nil
• You’ve let his plausible tongue and handsome face befog you.”1921, Harold MacGrath, chapter 14, in The Pagan Madonna, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, page 177. From the entry befog
• The second option, to ontologize the definition of politics, is an alluring choice, particularly if one finds the “normative grounds” complaints plausible and meaningful.2012, Samuel A. Chambers, The Lessons of Ranciere, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry ontologize
• The most plausible explanation of how mutations in the APP gene lead to AD is that they result in a protein that is mismetabolized.2012, F. Owen, R. Itzhaki, Molecular and Cell Biology of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, page 103. From the entry mismetabolize
• It seems plausible that the disagreement between the competing representationalist theories traces back to an underlying disagreement about the nature of mental representation.2008 August 27, Mikkel Gerken, “Is There a Simple Argument for Higher-Order Representation Theories of Awareness Consciousness?”, in…. From the entry representationalist

Meaning of plausible

1. adjective Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.
2. adjective Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
3. adjective Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

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Questions about plausible in a sentence

How do you use plausible in a sentence?

Plausible is used as an adjective. For example: “His flabbergast was so great he couldn’t even come up with a plausible answer.”

What is a short sentence with plausible?

“a plausible excuse”

What does plausible mean?

Plausible means seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.