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Example sentences for "ludicrously"

Lexicographically close words:
lucubrations; lucus; lud; ludere; ludicrous; ludicrousness; ludis; ludit; ludos; ludovicianus
  1. The ludicrously illustrated signs are as numerous here as they are in the capital, often running into caricature.

  2. His ideas of geography, or indeed of whither we were sailing, seemed to be ludicrously involved.

  3. It had a ludicrously drunken look, as though it were lolling up against the wall--like a staircase in a picture of which the perspective is all wrong.

  4. Technically that limit was actually transgressed, though the means were ludicrously inadequate to the end--repeal of the Union.

  5. He got up and stood on his left leg, with the sole of the right foot against the calf, his hands joined, his turban all awry, and the expression of his face most ludicrously miserable.

  6. Any reference to it would be ludicrously out of place.

  7. Too young as yet to be jealous of Evelyn's greater attractions, Beryl Baumgartner was alert enough to see that vulgar pertness was ludicrously inadequate as a means of winning male regard.

  8. Almost all the principal public men had been most ludicrously caricatured in the Charivari: those mentioned above were usually depicted with the distinctive attributes mentioned by us.

  9. There is something ludicrously tragic, as our politics are managed, in seeing an Administration compelled to print a campaign document (for such is General McClellan's Report in a double sense) directed against itself.

  10. Nor could anything have been imagined beforehand so ludicrously ominous as Mr. Seward's fears lest the platform should break down under them at Niagara.

  11. A man who stumbled at Sigrid's side clutched at her and then went rolling ludicrously down the mud bank into the rising flood.

  12. Whereupon, suiting her action to her words, she snatched the offending erection from her head, sat on it, and proceeded to rumple up the short grey hair till the last vestige of propriety was lost in a ludicrously rakish disorder.

  13. Vice is not confined to colour, for a black woman is ludicrously exhibited as suffering the penalty of those frailties which are imagined peculiar to the fair.

  14. The light, graceful dress and elegant parasol of the young girl, who occupied half of its single seat, looked ludicrously pronounced by the side of the slouching figure and grimy duster of the driver, who occupied the other half.

  15. She belongs to things about which you"-- And there the girl checked herself, aware of something almost ludicrously pitiful in the smug tearful countenance and stumpy would-be fashionable figure.

  16. For such mature enamoured virgins, as she reflected, are almost ludicrously selfless.

  17. Hopeless, of course, almost ludicrously so; yet what more natural, more comprehensible, Charles being who and what he was?

  18. It was ridiculous, it was absurd, it was quite ludicrously out of proportion, to feel so torn about so small a thing, but she was torn.

  19. His work and his huge masculinity looked ludicrously incongruous as he bent over the low table and scraped at the tin plates with his thumb nail or squinted into the lard buckets, of which there seemed an endless array.

  20. He turned away abruptly and jogged down the trail with the overalls stuffed with his possessions bobbing ludicrously on his back.

  21. The fleeing figure was hatless, and otherwise ludicrously garbed--for Westralia.

  22. That in cynical abuse of human impotence, as a wanton pastime, He sent human beings forth into the world thus ludicrously defective?

  23. A further shove sent him sprawling down the remaining stairs, and from the open doorway a flung waistcoat and coat draped him ludicrously as they struck.

  24. With her lips almost ludicrously lifted to stimulate the crescent of a smile, Lilly descended.

  25. Gaveston had last seen him in the RĂ©gale, in those ludicrously far-off days of his Bohemian life in London.

  26. This we remark in the case of the artisan, but, ludicrously enough, do not apply the same rule to people of the richer sort.

  27. To which Boruwlaski, not to be outdone in courtesy, ludicrously replied, "Oh!

  28. It has been said, ludicrously enough, that Brummel and Bonaparte fell together.

  29. And he led him some paces aside, inside the boundary line, which seemed a ludicrously unnecessary precaution, seeing that there was no one within sight or hearing save Dave's horse.

  30. German names meet the eye everywhere, and are usually very outlandish in appearance, while many of them have significations which are conspicuously and ludicrously inappropriate.

  31. Ludicrously high stocks and "swallow-tail" coats of brown homespun made the dress of the men different from that of corresponding rustics in America.

  32. A Scottish parliament, from its perpetual shiftings from place to place was ludicrously nicknamed the running parliament; in the same spirit we had our long parliament.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ludicrously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.