How To Use Improbably In A Sentence
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She was short, with big curly brown hair and a little bald husband, and she was always cheery and happy and had an improbably posh accent and as with most such people a fearsome temper that you really didn't want to provoke.
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One of the best is Ganga Garden, overlooking a lagoon formed by the River Bentota and run, improbably enough, by a Blackpool landlady.
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As the picture shows, two of the items that feature (perhaps improbably) in my own washbag are the Mennen shave stick and a cheap generic tube of toothpaste.
Planning The Perfect Travel Washbag | Lifehacker Australia
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Until this season, they'd been hopeless wheel-spinners, a punch line with a rambling ex-coach Mike Singletary who still gets mocked, improbably, on David Letterman's "Late Show.
San Francisco Is Very Hard to Hate
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The Italian composer was born, improbably enough, at Newcastle upon Tyne.
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This year, summer has appeared improbably early.
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Diesel, quite improbably, had always had a yen to act with the grande dame.
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An economy of voluntary exchanges is inherently inegalitarian (even if economies of a more regimented type may conceivably but somewhat improbably be less so.)
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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Days are no longer fuelled by ‘hamburger flavoured puffed wheat snacks’ and improbably flavoured, highly coloured fizzy pop.
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The curved capsule seems improbably fragile, like a giant insect cocoon lodged among the trees.
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There have long been debates about the accuracy of composers' metronome marks, many of which have seemed improbably slow or fast to later generations.
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What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city:
A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
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The main character is a dancer, who improbably has absolutely no problem getting involved with a crack dealer.
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Bringing these artists together has brought a musical heritage to life, fusing soul, blues, zydeco, Cajun and jazz of every persuasion into an improbably rewarding experience for a fund-raising record.
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As we leave, I hear the wife say to her young daughter in Spanish, improbably enough, “There, now we can buy those shoes you wanted.”
Gringos in Paradise
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She was indeed improbably pretty, small, plump and very fair, with soft golden hair that was silky and yet fluffy, perfectly regular little features, and a kind of infantine sweetness, combined with an almost incredible cleverness that was curious and fascinating.
Bird of Paradise
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There is a certain inertia to poulation growth — mathematically described by Nathan Keyfitz — that means we cannot escape the short and intermediate term consequences of our demographic destinies even if vital rates were to improbably shift rapidly and in ways to offset current trends.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparative Demographic Charts on Aging Populations
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It turns out that they're hucksters, though - they go to improbably lengths to set up hoax monsters that would earn respect from Disneyworld's imagineers.
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There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together.
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Not improbably St. Paul's injunction was so interpreted that any synaxis of the faithful where there was reading of the Scriptures terminated in a salute of this kind, and it is even possible that the appearance of the kiss in certain liturgies at the Mass of Catechumens is due to the same cause.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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She's quick-witted, scarily focused, even improbably droll.
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Those auctions and tip jars have, somewhat improbably, amounted to almost $100,000 for cystic fibrosis.
A Rapper's Animated Fund-Raising Efforts
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The sea is an improbably pale turquoise.
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The health club was decorated in shades of warm terracotta, splashed about with the greenery of improbably large potted plants.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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She's got toothpick legs, one improbably skinnier than the other.
End of needle exchange marks loss of a bulwark in D.C.'s AIDS fight
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Charlie Doerner for The Wall Street Journal Alex Rodriguez The image of actress Cameron Diaz feeding Alex Rodriguez popcorn on national television improbably became one of the lasting images of this year's Super Bowl, and Rodriguez was able to laugh about it Monday as he met with the media for the first time this spring.
Popcorn Jokes as A-Rod Meets With the Media
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Family photo albums are packed with the evidence of success – en pointe at an improbably early age, dressed in Hungarian folk costume with hands on hips, or skating with one leg lifted in a graceful arabesque.
I'm not angry with Edith any more
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I haven't seen anything to suggest that a infitesimally-improbably compination of chemicals came together to rapidly form a minimal genetic and metabolic system contained in a amphipathic membrane (i.e. a cell).
Dawkins on the OOL
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In this vertiginous mode, Armantrout can sound less like other ‘Language writers’ than like an improbably terse stand-up comic.
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A frustratingly large number of improbably tall people seemed to enjoy competing with each other to see who could spend the most time stood directly in front of me.
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It improbably and effectively twists a simple rural do-si-do rhythm into a creepy backdrop.
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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Improbably, she helps, and stays around to help more, becoming a constant friend.
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In an act of quite startling self-referentiality, Harvey Nichols has dedicated its whole Christmas facade to the act of display building itself: snow-like piles of polystyrene packaging and frosty, crumpled clingfilm decorate the windows, evoking the atmosphere of the store's design studio as a team of improbably dressed mannequins set about carving out giant Arctic-themed props.
Christmas through the looking glass
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And yes improbably this Alice draws her inspiration from the Wonderland Alice, being apparently some form of blood eyed black rabbit (As opposed to a white rabbit) as well as a chain (from what I understand a contractable beings that will fight for you) that is trying to find her memories according to …. .you guessed it, a Chesire Cat.
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His mother - improbably, for the ferry boat - wore a Leghorn straw hat and matching two-piece in cream silk shantung.
THE QUEST FOR K
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As recently as 1998, having led them to an improbably high 11 th place finish, he was being touted as a long-term contender to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
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A shiv is all about masked utility: it’s an innocuous object with improbably toxic intent (whether used to attack others or to protect oneself ...).
Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives
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The book is a tedious affair that meanders along the journey of its plot before marooning us in an improbably happy ending.
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Ramey Wine Cellars A NUANCED VISION | Hyde Vineyards in Napa, source of a great Ramey Chardonnay David Ramey was driving on a dusty road through the land of tequila and mezcal when he had what he describes as his "coup de foudre"—otherwise known as his road-to-Mexicali moment—and realized, improbably, that he wanted to make wine.
Wines That Favor Balance Over Power
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The health club was decorated in shades of warm terracotta, splashed about with the greenery of improbably large potted plants.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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As the picture shows, two of the items that feature perhaps improbably in my own washbag are the Mennen shave stick and a cheap generic tube of toothpaste.
Planning The Perfect Travel Washbag | Lifehacker Australia
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Dressed in a short-skirted black suit, adorned only by a knockout of an emerald ring, matching ear bobs and a few inconspicuous tattoos, Jolie looks both unattainably gorgeous and improbably of-this-world.
Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt'
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Everyone in the film is improbably gorgeous.
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My father had such an improbably thick thatch of dark brown hair that a friend of mine once asked me if he wore a wig.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, women of a certain age parade improbably large and pert bosoms encased in lime-green body suits, suspiciously taut, unwrinkled, expressionless faces, and very aged, very rich husbands on the terrace.
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What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city:
A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
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Improbably, the result was worth it: The titivated Jumbo was so lifelike that he looked ready to charge at spectators—and, presumably, he still would, had his artificial hide not caught fire and burned him to a crisp in 1972.
Wildlife Without Life
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Wearing earplugs, safety glasses, and an improbably spotless white polo shirt, Lee steps between rolls of wire, fiddles with machines, then heads to his office to handle a client call.
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This shows that no O(1D) the first electronically excited state which will not collisionally or radiatively quench to the ground state by collision in almost all cases was produced by multiphoton processes 7. Any ground state O(3P) would have to be improbably hot translationally to react with water vapor producing OH 8. Higher lying quartet states of NO2 are unlikely to react.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Imperial and Spotted Eagles hunt over jheels inhabited by Purple Gallinules, Pheasant-tailed Jacanas and improbably tall Sarus Cranes.
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He and his adversary the sheriff improbably both sleep with the same woman.
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If, improbably, he had thought that private affairs could have first attention and public business be left to aestivate the summer through, developments on the frontier soon would have aroused him.
Washington
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Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife?
Archive 2009-09-01
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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Technically, Phillips should have been at the forefront of that, not prostrating herself improbably in grubby community centres, and bringing her own herbal tea bags to unaccommodating restaurants.
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I rented this because Joyce Compton has a supporting role as a chorine who is improbably paired in a romantic duo with that limp-wristed classic movie icon, Franklin Pangborn.
2009 September : Scrubbles.net
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Miss Bala" is a portrait of a young woman who is at once terribly vulnerable and improbably brave.
Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
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To which the improbably-forearmed mariner can only reply: ‘Yer musches up some cabbidge and some carrikts, mate, and yer serves it with yer spinachk.’
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How does a bunch of cool people like us continually wind up with these improbably chickenhearted leaders?
Why Can't Democrats Get a Backbone?
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Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.
The Future Is Cheese
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Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive.
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Among the relatively new slang words: stella, "good-looking female," from stellar, "starlike, " improbably influenced by the shouted name of Stanley Kowalski's wife in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire." A synonym is shorty or shawty, imported from vintage hip-hop for "girlfriend of any height." Such attractiveness is the opposite of the fast-fading butterface ("Great body, but her face .... "), and a less-than-good-looking male or female is a blockamore, who "only looks good from a block or more.
Old NY Times Writers Trying To Understand How “The Kids” Talk Is, Like, Totes Adorkable | Best Week Ever
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In Pennsylvania, a report from 2009 that came to light this summer flagged schools where tests showed improbably high erasure marks.
State Weighs Testing Curbs on Teachers
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A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
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65 Thus accounting for his sickness, improbably enough but in flattering way.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Perhaps our playwrights should focus less on public navel-gazing and more on creating roles worthy of the host of immensely talented actors who so improbably bless our country.
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Representing the O'Hara Foundation in Britain, improbably, is a spoiled, bratty young girl, Scarlett O'Hara (?!?), who spends most of her time being obnoxious or putting the moves on Ray, who proves to be quite the shrinking violet ( my voice-over is being done by a woman, okay?
Archive 2007-11-01
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My father had such an improbably thick thatch of dark brown hair that a friend of mine once asked me if he wore a wig.
Times, Sunday Times
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They may be a depraved tangle but it's the disparate concoction and uninhibited mindset that improbably make this band one of the most inventive and mystifyingly unsettling live acts I've seen in ages.
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William Tell and Gessler's cap), not improbably testifies to equivocalness even at that late date.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
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Salim, and a girl, Latika, for whom Jamal holds the kind of improbably pure love that Don Quixote had for Dulcinea.
RELIGION
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Someone has to hold the arch together while the keystone is put in place, or they are thrown together at a single time improbably falling neatly into place.
Behe and Theistic Evolution