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    surd example sentences

    surd


    1. He’d been absurdly proud of it


    2. ‘But that’s absurd …’


    3. I stare at the water remaining in the glass I am holding … but that is ridiculous … absurd … it would mean that Dan would have to be psychotic or something … wouldn’t it?


    4. ‘Don’t start on that!’ he roared … then, realising the absurdity of the situation, starts laughing ‘Oh, Mum! This is ridiculous!’


    5. ‘Stephen, don’t be absurd! I couldn’t possibly move into your house


    6. What an absurd episode!


    7. ‘But that is absurd


    8. It was absurd


    9. It was absurd, and even as I thought this, I found myself cramming the last piece of bread into my mouth as I grinned underneath my hood


    10. ’ I said rather damply, it is absurd how much this has touched me

    11. The absurdity of our meeting struck me then


    12. Clutching it, she watched as a pale and patently edgy JJ and an absurdly protective Angie clambered into the kaht, stowing their bags safely under the seat; she watched until they disappeared


    13. Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades


    14. laughed again at the absurdity


    15. Everybody laughed at the absurdity


    16. Joris throws more and more absurd imprecations at his friend’s back, making me giggle even more - the only suggestion that Berndt can hear any of this being the occasional shaking of his shoulders as he fails to suppress his laughter at the ridiculous things being said


    17. Hauling my mantel back over my shoulders, I watch as he folds the tent and reduces it to an absurdly small package which he stows in a bag on Adamant’s back


    18. We eye each other like a couple of territorial felines but then my sense of the absurd hits me and I burst out laughing, taking him with me


    19. All my confident poise deserts me and I feel an absurd urge to burst into tears – shit! Some of this must have shown in my face, for the next thing I know is that Karen is reaching across the table


    20. I have to smile at the absurdity of comment, as he intended I should, and start nibbling one of the sandwiches

    21. We stand and calmly talk about office work generally, while a little voice in the back of my head has screaming hysterics at the absurdity of the whole situation


    22. Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary


    23. This is absurd - that’s you giggling, Sally! And you were worried about the effect alcohol would have!


    24. Honestly, Sarah, you are getting maudlin! How absurd can you get?


    25. can we have gone from so absurdly happy and almost settled to … to this, in a blink of an eye? But that's the crux of it, isn't it, it was absurd


    26. ' I replied, the absurdity of the situation beginning to make itself felt somewhere in the vicinity of my stomach


    27. ‘That’s absurd, Dave! As if my mother could dislike anything in trousers!’


    28. He appeared oblivious to the absurdity of out of placeness


    29. Briefly he considered passing something on to Chas’s family, and dismissed it as an absurd idea


    30. The roars of laughter from the older men at his absurdly conflicted expressions rang out suddenly over the lake and echoed through the woods

    31. ‘As you no doubt realised, the media have heard about the events at the hostel – I had to deal with them first before the rumours got too absurd


    32. “Oh come on,” she said, wondering that he could pursue this masquerade so deeply into the absurd


    33. He’d gone on to suggest that, if it was okay with me (and he’d looked absurdly anxious at that point) we could throw overnight stuff into his van and just drive off somewhere


    34. You see, there’s no reason to be so absurdly pleased that you can remember it! He doesn’t think it in any way remarkable


    35. She was almost pleading with me not to think badly of her, absurd under the circumstances


    36. Over Abi’s head, I beam at my son, absurdly proud, the rush of emotion causing tears to start in my eyes


    37. 'That's absurd,' said Corrente at last


    38. ‘That’s absurd – they’re your woods, aren’t they?’


    39. ‘This is absurd! My client has never contested the


    40. Nothing can be more absurd, however, than to imagine that men in general should work less when they work for themselves, than when they work for other people

    41. It seems absurd at


    42. Their absurd presumption


    43. workmen could easily change trades with one another, if those absurd laws did not hinder


    44. This desire cannot be fulfilled and through failure he grows ever desperate, eventually falling prey to the most absurd forms of hope


    45. The cultivation of tobacco has, upon this account, been most absurdly prohibited through the greater part of Europe, which necessarily gives a sort of monopoly to the countries where it is allowed ; and as Virginia and Maryland produce the greatest quantity of it, they share largely, though with some competitors, in the advantage of this monopoly


    46. ‘Then you have no proof! The whole idea is absurd


    47. It would be absurd, however, to infer from thence, that there are commonly in the market three score lambs for one ox ; and it would be just as absurd to infer, because an ounce of gold will commonly purchase from fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver, that there are commonly in the market only fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold


    48. not proposed really seems absurd


    49. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens


    50. “But that’s absurd!” objected Aetes














































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