How to Use logical in a Sentence

logical

adjective
  • He seems to be a logical choice for the job.
  • Since she helped us before, it's logical to assume that she'll help us again.
  • She wasn't able to give me a logical explanation for her behavior.
  • And his jump was just a logical ascension of the chase.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • Steve Gilbert is a logical man, good with numbers, even ones that might not make sense to the rest of us.
    The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The Allen Institute seems like a logical home for a big A.I. project.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Lobster would have been the most logical dish to order.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The main logical difficulty is that so few of them believe in any of the same things.
    M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
  • First and foremost, does the time travel make logical sense?
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • There might not be a logical landing spot for any of them until the Buccaneers are on the clock at No. 19.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This scenario is logical for the former aide, as Christie’s real chance at the White House has long passed.
    Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Is there a risk you've felt called to take, but your logical mind continues to talk yourself out of it?
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, this is the sort of view that, taken to its logical end, can annihilate the meaning of any event.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Advancing the Senate bill seems like the logical next step.
    Benjamin Chartock, STAT, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But the Browns are the logical answer if Watson can come anywhere close to his peak form from Houston.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
  • The next logical step is and must be ending that censorship.
    Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In rattlesnakes, puzzling them out would be a next logical step.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But 2 has the same logical loop as cup 7, where a pour big enough to fill it, despite its outflowing pipe, would still fill cup 1 first.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • My mouth and my fingers can’t seem to figure out the new rules, especially since the old rules made such logical sense to me.
    Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • While Washington or Utah seems like the logical pick, keep an eye on Oregon State.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If Idaho wants to go after the right to travel, focusing on minors seems to be a logical place to start.
    Mary Ziegler, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The most logical buyer, Nexstar, was the lead horse throughout the sale process, clinching an agreement in August 2022.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Why else would jazzy trip-hop playing in the bistro feel like a logical pivot from the thumping techno of a dark oceanic tunnel?
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The logical trade partner, even in a wide-open market, is Miami.
    Afentres, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The work from May was focused on reducing the logical slipups made by large language models (LLMs).
    Will Knight, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • By/Rosie Jane's dulce body fragrance is so well-loved, turning it into a candle is a logical step.
    Michelle Rostamian, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
  • There’s only one logical conclusion to be drawn from all this.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 May 2023
  • There may not be an easy, logical answer to the problem of your desire for more autonomy in your life.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • College may not be the logical next step for many ambitious high schoolers.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 July 2023
  • But this can require as many as a thousand physical qubits for each logical one.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2023

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