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Example sentences for "ridiculously"

Lexicographically close words:
ridicule; ridiculed; ridicules; ridiculing; ridiculous; ridiculousness; ridiculum; ridin; riding; ridling
  1. What is ridiculously lucky is, that Lord Lincoln goes into waiting, to-day, and will be to present her!

  2. We came to a paragraph, which I must transcribe; for though it means nothing in the world, it is so ridiculously worded in the old English that it made us laugh for three days.

  3. It was absurdly, ridiculously out of repair; its gaping beams and the sunken, dejected floor could only be due to intentional neglect.

  4. She was standing on a chair, but her heart began to beat so ridiculously that she was compelled to sit down.

  5. Of course her method of conversation is ridiculously funny, I know; but a woman who can suffer the misfortunes which have befallen the Aunt and come out with the heart of a child is worth studying, I think.

  6. And then he slipped back, almost instantly as it seemed to him, to a room full of excited and anxious people, all extravagantly, and as he thought, ridiculously concerned about himself.

  7. Every individual peer for himself may show that I was ridiculously wrong; the whole body of those noble persons may refute me for the whole corps.

  8. I have never entered into those trifling vexations and oppressive details that have been falsely and most ridiculously laid to my charge.

  9. He felt as though he had just been whisked up from the edge of a precipice over which he ridiculously dangled.

  10. She was wearing a smart fur coat cut on swagger lines and a ridiculously small hat pulled over one eye.

  11. Maybe he got sick and started home," timidly suggested Sim in a voice that sounded ridiculously small after the Gargantuan tones of Mr. Callahan.

  12. At the same time, the value of the assignats had fallen to a ridiculously low level, and in order to check the corresponding rise in prices the authorities had fixed a "maximum" and obliged the traders to keep their shops open.

  13. For the two together he asked only the ridiculously small price of three hundred thousand francs--sixty thousand dollars.

  14. The lot of the skins--the pelt of the sea-otter is ridiculously small in proportion to its value--was no heavy load for the average man.

  15. She had been engaged without Henrietta's sanction; she was young, and pretty, and already ridiculously popular.

  16. Every one knew how intimate, how ridiculously intimate, she and Louise had become.

  17. And a ridiculously small one," she remarked.

  18. She has a perfectly enormous fortune, so ridiculously tied up that although I am never out of debt and always borrowing money, I cannot touch a penny of it, not even with her help.

  19. Lane was ridiculously inept in his suggestions, one of which involved the idea that Holgate desired to "bag ladies and treasure with one gun.

  20. No; never mind," he paused, and proceeded in his ridiculously precise voice.

  21. Miss Pew had taken a good deal of the Mauleverer furniture at a valuation when she bought the old house; and the Mauleverer furniture being of a rococo and exploded style, the valuation had been ridiculously low.

  22. There is a wide distance between being uncivil and being obsequiously, ridiculously attentive.

  23. They both considered that Bessie was ridiculously young--much too young to receive an offer of marriage.

  24. But youth reckons time by heart-throbs, and during Uncle Jed's convalescence Nance found the clock of life running ridiculously slow.

  25. Beside the big show girls about her, she felt ridiculously young and slender and insignificant.

  26. This fanatic held his wife ridiculously dear, and her misery might break his stubbornness.

  27. The man had only two arrows left in his quiver, and he might miss with one or both of them; all one knew about his skill in shooting was that he could hit a large stag at a ridiculously short range.

  28. And then it suddenly struck me that thirty-six shillings was such a ridiculously inadequate sum for a man of his immense wealth to spend on a birthday present.

  29. She looked ridiculously young to be the mistress of this fine establishment, and despite occasional affectations, there was more of the schoolgirl than of the woman of the world, in her happy voice and eager gestures.

  30. The transition from sunlight to darkness had been too rapid for my eyes, so that, for some moments I could only stand ridiculously in the middle of the room.

  31. She has come over on her usual errand--to consult the doctors; grows more ridiculously fanciful as she grows older.

  32. Now, considering that he expects us both to be at Marshdale to-morrow, can you not perceive how entirely, ridiculously void of purpose it would be for him to say he is seriously ill if he is not so?

  33. It all seemed ridiculously simple and ridiculously cheerful.

  34. She keeps me on ridiculously low rations, and if I had not brought my own outfit I don't think she would have sold me one.

  35. Englishmen are so ridiculously gentle to women.

  36. And Winnie's alleged grievances fell so short of her own tale of wrongs as to seem a ridiculously inadequate excuse.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridiculously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    broadly; humorously; madly