How to Use laughable in a Sentence

laughable

adjective
  • His attempt at skiing was laughable.
  • Hegel thought this was laughable.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The city’s defense of the law was laughable.
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Asking me to pull off a shot from the three-point line is laughable.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Adding to the laughable nature of all this, there is a way around it.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • At the start of this season, the thought of one more year would have been laughable.
    — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Lange’s comments seem laughable now.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a sentence that would have been laughable just a couple of years ago.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The posts would be laughable if they weren’t taken by many people as gospel.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Ben loves to cook and see live comedy, but hopes his food isn’t laughable.
    — Todd Duncan, ajc, 21 Jan. 2020
  • For Pogačar, these lofty goals seem achievable rather than laughable.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The fact the mainstream media thinks that’s news is laughable.
    — Annie Linskey, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • This scenario is not so laughable in the wake of the pandemic.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The face-swap technology used in the videos was so crude as to be laughable.
    — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • On its face, Paul Davidson writes, the idea may sound laughable.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • For many, the idea of gangs as victims of repression is laughable.
    — Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • And, in perhaps the most laughable bit of news that has come out, Yahoo!
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • Some of it might have been laughable to Meredith had the impact not been so painful.
    — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • What isn’t silly, what isn’t laughable is the of the state Lions.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Twenty years ago, as Fluker said, the idea would have been laughable.
    — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • The habit of trying to punch down on a place, to define it by its problems, is laughable.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • How large are the costs that the state’s residents ought to bear to achieve such laughable outcomes?
    — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 1 Mar. 2021
  • One of the most laughable narratives has to do with the timeline of the attack.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 14 Jan. 2021
  • But the notion that unions are standing in the way of real reform is laughable.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • The most laughable, in retrospect, is that this was a problem for the future rather than the present.
    — John D. Sutter, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Quite the opposite, but the way in which the Big Ten got to this point is laughable.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2020
  • But the 7-on-7 periods with Nabers on the field are a bit laughable.
    — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The money that new servers make is laughable compared to what Per Se charges for food and wine.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
  • His dark fate in the film is handled in a way that’s meant to be laughable — and is, but not in the way that’s intended.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Their cowardly response is laughable and sad.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025

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