Sample sentences for PLAUSIBLE

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Definition

apparently reasonable, but unproven

plausible = sounding reasonable

plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven

This theory, too, is plausible, but no concrete evidence exists to prove it.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

plausible = reasonable

It doesn't sound very plausible.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

plausible = likely (reasonable that it would be true)

This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unknown)

In one way it sounded most unlikely; in another, it was plausible enough.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

plausible = reasonable

plausible = reasonable, but unproven

The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the "how" of this splitting of the human species.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven

The story was plausible, but she sensed that he was either lying or leaving something out.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One

plausible = sounded reasonable on the surface (though unproven)

Proofreaders do not like them, but they give a plausibility to the story.
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unproven)

But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless's death at greater length, the less plausible this consensus seemed.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

plausible = reasonable

But other scenarios involve potato seeds of an entirely different variety, and these scenarios are more plausible.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

plausible = reasonable

It is not difficult to imagine plausible causes for Waterman's instability.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven

It is very plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis.
London, Jack -- Before Adam
He was always a villain, smooth-spoken and plausible, but a dangerous, subtle villain all the same.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
...he was only gaining time for a plausible answer.
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
This very simple explanation appeared at once plausible and satisfying.
Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
This was the most plausible explanation of a speech which had caused rather a startling change in his expectations.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
The brain of a Machiavelli could scarcely have invented a plausible reply.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Vanished Messenger
There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them—and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug

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