Sample Sentences for
plausible
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    Well, I think there's only one plausible answer.  (source)
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    Eric was annoyed that he had to suggest yet another theory, but all he needed was some plausible concept the jurors could latch on to and pull them in.  (source)
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    For nearly everyone who had known him, there was only one plausible conclusion to draw from the failure of the massive search.  (source)
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    It doesn't sound very plausible.  (source)
    plausible = likely (reasonable that it would be true)
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    Remembering the chickens, I wondered at the plausibility of Caravaggio's scene: no one had that look on their face—that tranquil, disinterested expression—when taking off something's head.  (source)
    plausibility = reasonableness
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    Your father, too, was a man of learning as befitted his position; no man more plausibly conducted school; nor had he the manner or the speech of a common dominie; but (as ye will yourself remember) I took aye a pleasure to have him to the manse to meet the gentry; and those of my own house, Campbell of Kilrennet, Campbell of Dunswire, Campbell of Minch, and others, all well-kenned gentlemen, had pleasure in his society.†  (source)
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    Instead of our present relations with Mexico—instead of the serious risks which have been run, and those plausibilities of opprobrium which we have had to combat, not without great difficulty, nor with entire success—instead of the difficulties which now throng the path to a satisfactory settlement of all our unsettled questions with Mexico—Texas might, by a more judicious and conciliatory diplomacy, have been as securely in the Union as she is now—her boundaries defined—California probably ours—and Mexico and ourselves united by closer ties than ever; of mutual friendship and mutual support in resistance to the intrusion of European interference in the affairs of the American republics.†  (source)
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    In one way it sounded most unlikely; in another, it was plausible enough.  (source)
    plausible = reasonable
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    This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him...  (source)
    plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unknown)
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    He told his story plausibly and had no trouble, since he volunteered to pay for them in advance, in engaging his rooms; a sleeping room, sitting room, and bath.†  (source)
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    They tried to argue it away by reminding conscience that they had purloined sweetmeats and apples scores of times; but conscience was not to be appeased by such thin plausibilities; it seemed to them, in the end, that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing—and there was a command against that in the Bible.†  (source)
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    I thought it sounded very plausible.  (source)
    plausible = reasonable, but unproven
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    Proofreaders do not like them, but they give a plausibility to the story.  (source)
    plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unproven)
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