Incredulous Sentence Examples

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  • I was incredulous when he first told me the secret.

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  • He was at first incredulous, but eventually learned the truth.

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  • He was incredulous as a Missouri cynic but interested.

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  • St. Thomas was known as the incredulous apostle.

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  • They are often incredulous at the sums that the poorest children and pensioners have received.

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  • He lunged out of the chair and fixed her with an incredulous stare.

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  • He couldn't blame her for looking incredulous after hearing the tale.

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  • I was incredulous when I heard the shocking news story.

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  • Jane had an incredulous expression when she heard her name announced as the winner.

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  • I'm still incredulous at the idea that oil had nothing to do with this political problem in the Middle East.

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  • Jack's sister was incredulous that he had gotten away with his misbehavior.

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  • When she opened them, incredulous that Jackson had gotten away with his joke, he grinned innocently and shrugged.

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  • The children were incredulous when their parents brought home a puppy.

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  • She used an incredulous tone with me once I told her I wanted a homebirth.

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  • It can be easy for many people to feel skeptical or incredulous when others tell tales of seeing ghosts, but it is often much more difficult to discredit those stories when witnesses learn the real names of those ghosts.

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  • They have good reason to be incredulous.

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  • His tone was incredulous.

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  • His expression was incredulous.

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  • His eyes twinkled with the very devil, but his expression and tone were incredulous.

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  • Dulce said using an incredulous tone.

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  • The veteran Biot whose acquaintance Pasteur had made, was incredulous.

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  • She is almost incredulous at how her circumstances have changed.

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  • Here we see Mary Magdalene trying hard to convince the incredulous disciples that she has seen the risen Christ.

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  • Immediately on his arrival Anion related his story to Periander, who was at first incredulous, but eventually learned the truth by a stratagem.

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  • I'm sorry I was so incredulous about your 'legend of the lost bones' this morning.

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  • His report convinced the most incredulous of the reality of the charges.

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  • This brutality seems rather incredulous to the modern reader.

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  • Weak- kneed, he passed a trembling hand over his incredulous eyes; with the courage of despair, he feebly pinched himself.

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  • He was wont to mention the following as the two incidents in his life which had afforded him the greatest pleasure, - that a stranger, whom he had met as a travelling companion in his youth, made to his declaration "I am Daniel Bernoulli" the incredulous and mocking reply, "And I am Isaac Newton"; and that, while entertaining Kdnig and other guests, he solved without rising from table a problem which that mathematician had submitted as difficult and lengthy.

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  • Your little girl will be able to express her inner fashion diva without attracting incredulous stares.

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  • He was appointed chairman of a strong committee to consider the evidence of such outrages not only in Belgium but in France; and his report convinced the most incredulous of the reality of the charges.

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  • The grandparents were incredulous that their grandchildren were graduating.

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  • This is absolutely incredulous, requiring one to connect with ancient astronaut theories or Atlantis myths.

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