plausible

In a sentence

Six example sentences with plausible, each labelled with its topic.

• Food poisoning was the plausible explanation until three patients who had eaten nothing at the party arrived with identical symptoms.

  Medicine

• The minister offered a plausible reason for the delay, and reporters accepted it until the shipping records appeared.

  Politics

• A plausible explanation for the sudden gains was better sleep, though the athlete had also changed shoes that month.

  Fitness

• The theory was plausible enough to fund, though it took a decade of measurements to show it was also correct.

  Science

• The defense offered a plausible timeline, and the jury spent two days deciding whether it fit the receipts.

  Law

• The heist only works because the plan seems plausible, and the writers spent months making each step feel ordinary.

  Movies

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains plausible. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• precede
• minimized
• duration
• discern
• induction
• prospective
• affirm
• marginal
• scheming
• compounding
• legislate
• enormously