How to Use plausibility in a Sentence

plausibility

noun
  • To me, the plausibility of the text was neither here nor there.
    — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
  • Paragon missed even that window of plausibility by at least two years.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
  • Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • These rewards may cost you some pocket change in terms of plausibility and such.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His protests that his father can’t tell him what to do have all the force and plausibility of a teenager’s.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • These setups might prompt you to doubt their plausibility.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But the jury could not see past the question of plausibility.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • But what does physics say about the plausibility of flying reindeer?
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The time when big clubs are linked with big players, with varying degrees of plausibility.
    — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • This one doesn't even reach any level of plausibility for a federal judge.
    — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The movie has every right to be fiction, but the heart of its drama lies in its patina of plausibility.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Peary, for all his flaws, required a basic respect for plausibility and fact.
    — Time, 15 July 2023
  • And selling judges on the plausibility of a future that never occurred is the hard part.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The best stories here are the ones that fall on or near the line of plausibility, exposing the fault lines in our current mode.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • Overall, the results could have potential plausibility, but age does seem to take a grand toll.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 11 July 2017
  • Any air of plausibility soon leaks out of the plot, and the whole thing drifts into silliness, tricked out with familiar tropes.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And, as ever, the franchise is making good on her plausibility.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
  • The play’s scrupulous plausibility slips a notch in the ratcheting up of this conflict.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But the idea that Sean Spicer has been body-shamed out of the spotlight still holds a patina of plausibility.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2017
  • Tracy and Gordo are on the far end of the plausibility spectrum.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Some plot points strain plausibility.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But perhaps no one’s outfits stretch the limits of plausibility more than Lazkani’s.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • Perhaps, but anyone who knows the still intact social habits of the Parisian gratin will vouch for its plausibility.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • And with enough plausibility as to make the fantasy seem at least somewhat plausible.
    — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
  • That group is called Crossroads—a name with just the right degree of clever-hokey Christian plausibility.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • That stretches the bounds of plausibility.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The plausibility of the basic-income idea is still a matter of some pretty basic debate.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The production abounds in belly laughs and spine-tingling thrills, set forth with an all-important air of plausibility.
    — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The plausibility of this argument figures to be a key component in the outcome of the trial.
    — Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • The point is to argue the plausibility of either the humans or the lone silverback prevailing in a battle of brawn.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025

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