Yes, I know. This sounds preposterous.
It will be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
I knew then that the idea I'd had and dismissed as preposterous was true.
I verily believe-that was why I saw it was so preposterous of me to think of being a curate.
Until very recently, that would have sounded preposterous; the question for the impending general election was how badly Labour would lose, not whether.
If that sounds preposterous, wait until you see it from space. The image below was captured by a GeoEye satellite and has a resolution of half a meter (1.65 feet).
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.人*中所有荒謬的傲慢裏，沒什麼能超過來自擁有豪宅、温暖和美食的人對窮人的指責。
The whole idea was preposterous.
The story was preposterous but believable.
The idea was preposterous and I determined not to give it a second thought.
Aware that the sea will not litter, not Black Stone, not to old days will not preposterous;
The preposterous ways of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four undermined the Party's leadership in literature and art and destroyed their vitality.
She argues that contemporary man has ceased "to think". At first that seems like a preposterous remark. Of course, we are thinking. But what does it mean to think?
That' s a preposterous excuse !
This preposterous order roused the Carthaginians from despair.
And whenever you hear laughter and somebody saying, 'But that's preposterous!'
Proper rock stars who could actually play an instrument had Ferraris which they drove at preposterous speeds, usually into a swimming pool.
This is all preposterous!
We denounce the preposterous statement of the warmonger Churchill.
Where the baker has been defeated, what preposterous folly it would be for me to try to succeed.
The point of the story is that the little girl grew up to be a movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet.
This claim is -of course -preposterous.
Ah no, the same Commons debate saw an MP denouncing parts of the country suffering a "preposterous epidemic of a hybrid Negro song".
The result is preposterous.
The movie has a keen, bitter sense of the sudden breakdown of preposterous illusions.
These claims are absolutely preposterous!
A man at my time of life, and in my state of health, to risk the shock and the dangers of being flung suddenly into a different universe? I never heard anything so preposterous in my life!
Given such conditions, the idea that the building blocks of life originated in space rather than on the earth might seem preposterous.
That's a preposterous accusation!
The destiny of Fountain shows the preposterous circumstances and nihilistic future of the modern art.
They are asking a preposterous price for the work.
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