plausible

How To Use plausible In A Sentence

• They have kept it alive in the past and continue to make it plausible for millions of people today.
• One plausible scenario, he said, was that he had indeed threatened the cops with a dummy gun.
• Home advantage and better preparation make that outcome entirely plausible, as long as England seize the initiative early. Times, Sunday Times
• This is plausible because the enzyme citrate synthase is localized in the mitochondrial matrix.
• But others, founding their assertions upon more plausible reasoning, say that the petty Mussulman kings, who were the neighbours or tributaries of Benabad, justly alarmed at his alliance with a {93} Christian king, solicited the support of the Almoravide. History of the Moors of Spain
• Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.
• A sumptuous garniture, we learn, was commissioned by Charles V to make his son Philip look more plausible as a candidate for emperor in 1550. Armor as Wearable Sculpture
• He goes on to talk about the Pentagon's ongoing, undebated plans not only to keep bleeding our treasury in Iraq (and, I would add, Afghanistan), but also to keep spending billions to design and build Cold War-era weapons "that lack not only a current military need but even a plausible use in any foreseeable future. Robert Koehler: Cross of Irony
• Therefore, word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable.
• However, what is impossible within the fixed boundaries of political organisations may be more plausible in the far more fluid world of political ideas.