How to Use implausible in a Sentence

implausible

adjective

• He gave an implausible excuse for showing up late for work.
• The novel has an implausible ending.
• She's been making implausible claims.
• This didn’t, and still doesn’t, seem all that implausible to me.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
• This may have seemed implausible weeks ago.
  — Jason D. Greenblatt, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026
• But right now, both the fact and the details of it feel unearned and implausible.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• So yeah, a pet monkey, in and of itself, wouldn’t be implausible.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
• But this is Sunday, and these events seem worlds away, implausible.
  — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• This makes regime change implausible.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
• The way Cole saw it, getting five out of five records was implausible to begin with.
  — Patricia Hernandez, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
• At first glance, that number sounds implausible.
  — Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• Yet there are few ways a hard Brexit could happen, and all seem implausible.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• Is the concept of a non-stick-thin woman finding love that implausible?
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2020
• The White House may be telling some implausible stories these days.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• One of the complaints, Wynn argued, was implausible on its face.
  — John Kruzel, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
• Such an outcome is not implausible.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2026
• Through a complicated chain of events that are too implausible to recount, a horse licked my face.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2007
• But people are willing to believe the implausible, or at least lend credence to it.
  — Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
• So much that happens in this movie is not just implausible, but would be unacceptable.
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 23 Dec. 2016
• But the first claim, about the number of the protesters, seemed to me highly implausible.
  — Davood Moradian, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• This doesn't seem implausible on the fact of it, though a quick literature search didn't bring anything up.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2012
• The fiscal hit is just one reason many economists find the plan implausible.
  — Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
• The case is good news for helping judges ferret out the weakest and most implausible investor class actions.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021
• Which is, to be fair, a not-implausible interpretation of the facts.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• This time, the table is more volatile, and what seemed implausible three weeks ago now feels increasingly real.
  — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• Doesn’t everyone get frustrated with the red herrings and the implausible twists and stalling along the way?
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• So this is just another implausible episode of Black Mirror, which has come to life.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• Such an achievement had looked implausible for Zverev’s entire career.
  — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 12 July 2026
• Truth may be stranger than fiction, as the cliché holds, because the most implausible stories stand up only with evidence to back them.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
• Yes, the plot is contrived, and implausible, and full of masks and identity thefts, but the film aggressively owns its premise.
  — refinery29.com, 12 July 2018