How to Use illogical in a Sentence

illogical

adjective
  • It is illogical to think that things will change on their own.
  • Keep your cool when the things that people do seem illogical.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2021
  • What’s hard about this, of course, is that fear is often illogical, and our wants can be, too.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2024
  • This is not illogical, in the same way that any blackmail makes sense on paper.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The plot is an illogical mess of action scenes and joke setups.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 19 May 2018
  • On the outside, firing the coach of a first-place team seemed illogical.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • Following your heart may seem illogical, but today things are likely to work out for you.
    — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • All of which is to say, this rebound isn't totally illogical.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • At the same time, many rules that do exist can seem illogical or overly burdensome.
    — Lillian Mongeau, USA TODAY, 28 June 2020
  • Saving constitutes such a huge, key chunk of life that spending can feel illogical and wrong.
    — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • You may be tempted to empty your wallet to make an illogical purchase.
    — oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Of all the years to move the calendar back to March for opening day, this turned out to be the most illogical.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The copy-paste approach produced an eclectic and illogical list.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Sure, it's been criticized for what some call over-the-top clichés and illogical plot twists, but for some, at least, that's part of the fun.
    — EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And everyone—at least those of us with illogical toddlers (in other words, toddlers)—is in it.
    — Nat Kendall-Taylor, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Many fans find this to be the most frustrating and illogical rule in football, and it should be tweaked or clarified.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Teams know Randle is a fine passer, so providing him with a recipe on how to beat you seems illogical.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There were so many unnatural or illogical things that ended up in the anime.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Dreams are, by nature, often illogical—but the slight prospect for success does not extinguish them.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Others point out with good reason that his lack of support for a carbon price is counter-productive and illogical.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 2 Mar. 2020
  • For residents to have pro-Russia leanings in this area is not illogical.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • As a result, more than a few cutscenes drag on and on with bizarre rants and BJ's own illogical responses to them.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Handing out a pink slip simply for failing to topple James would have been illogical and unfair too.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 11 May 2018
  • He’s made his way into the backrooms and finds that the place keeps going, offering up illogical doorways and holes in the floor.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • But all of those quibbles are rooted in logic, and the Targa is, at its core, an illogical machine.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Louis has to travel, and there’s the sense that Eva has nowhere else to go—a vague rationale that feels at once inevitable and illogical.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The hearing showed that the case the San Francisco fintech was based on an illogical premise.
    — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Dunst has never tried so hard to be likable and come up short, taking the perkiness for which she was then known to its illogical extreme.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Dunst has never tried so hard to be likable and come up short, taking the perkiness for which she was then known to its illogical extreme.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Above all, the impossible narratives and, who knows, even the illogical ones.
    — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022

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