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Example sentences for "preposterously"

Lexicographically close words:
prepossessed; prepossessing; prepossession; prepossessions; preposterous; preposterousness; prepotency; prepotent; prepuce; preputial
  1. Casa Kirsch open so preposterously early, and my first impressions of Venice were gathered in the freezing, foggy station restaurant where J.

  2. I mean to say, they had started a rag with me--a bit of chaff--and I now found myself rather preposterously enjoying the manner in which they had chivied me.

  3. For a half-hour, I dare say, we discussed details there in the cold night, not seeing that it was quite preposterously bizarre.

  4. All at once I was feeling preposterously sorry for the creature.

  5. And here the matter was preposterously left, the aspirants for this social honour patiently bending their knees to the erstwhile despised Cousin Egbert, and the latter being visibly puffed up.

  6. But the catastrophe and the melodramatics about War-Office secrets, preposterously put on paper, and still more preposterously preserved, simply knocked the wind of reality out of the whole affair.

  7. But that further confession will be forthcoming is now wildly and preposterously problematical.

  8. And it is we, poor wretched schoolgirls and nuns who have to keep the saints in a good humour by attending to every word and being most preposterously devout whether we feel inclined to be or not.

  9. I am an inch taller than Milagros, but Milagros is getting most preposterously fat.

  10. Thank you most preposterously for the chocolates.

  11. Relief for tender consciences means nothing, where the conscience has previously relieved itself; that is, has complied with the injunctions which it seeks preposterously to be rid of.

  12. The boatmen caught at this, as a drowning man catches at a straw, and put in bids at rates preposterously low,--all except Cornelius Vanderbilt.

  13. The reader may be curious to know by what means Mr. Astor became so preposterously rich.

  14. Gueronnay is an elderly gentleman, with a youthful head of hair, red cheeks, and preposterously black whiskers.

  15. The explorer's joy, the sense of adventure, the feeling of wildness and freedom, withered and crumpled somewhat preposterously at the sight of the parlour-cars.

  16. This was a testing question, and for some time remained unanswered, while the chiefs and braves looked preposterously solemn.

  17. Cowley was preposterously called by the duke of Buckingham “The Pindar, Horace and Virgil of England.

  18. Orbaneja=, the painter of Ube´da, who painted so preposterously that he inscribed under his objects what he meant them for.

  19. That the sugar of the flour is the true element of the fermentation preposterously called panary, which dough undergoes, and that the starch and gluten have nothing to do with it, may be proved by decisive experiments.

  20. Some chemists have preposterously enough ascribed the phenomenon to the expansion of the combined water into steam.

  21. His face is generally hidden in his hands, but once or twice he lifts it to scan the proportions of my late grandfather's preposterously fat cob, whose portrait hangs on the wall above his head.

  22. Our guide assigned to it a date preposterously earlier than could have been the true one, judging either by the character of the carving or by the fact that mahogany has not been known or used much more than a century and a half.

  23. As he spoke, his voice, brought into sharp contrast with the changeful and animated voice of Carey, sounded almost preposterously thin and worn out.

  24. It is a trivial question that has been preposterously debated.

  25. Individuals and communities got preposterously into debt, and the world was saddled by a class of rich men who were creditors, men who did not handle and administer any real wealth, but who had the power to call up money.

  26. But her limbs were trembling again, and her eyes seemed preposterously large as they stared up at him from the white face.

  27. And in everything he said and did he was almost preposterously unreserved.

  28. She's so preposterously human, in her way, and yet she's always distinguished.

  29. The fact that Armand, after preposterously joining the Foreign Legion, and then preposterously leaving it, had actually been paid a hundred pounds down for a piece of literary work, had made his father have some hopes of him.

  30. She felt like an ignorant child, and almost preposterously English, as she talked to Madame Sennier, who became voluble in reply.

  31. It made the heavy alcohol-driven automobile of the time ridiculous in appearance as well as preposterously costly.

  32. I saw how little and feeble is the life of man, a thing of chances, preposterously unable to find the will to realise even the most timid of its dreams.

  33. No, I am saying too much--he does stick to his literary and legal aspirations; and he naturally would select the very two things which he is wholly and preposterously unfitted for.

  34. There is a home on that funereal mound, where generations of children have been born, and successive lives been spent, undisturbed by the ghost of the stern Roman whose ashes were so preposterously burdened.

  35. There came along a gigantic female figure, seven feet high, at least, and taking up a third of the street's breadth with the preposterously swelling sphere of her crinoline skirts.


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