How do you use Incredulous in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like distrustful or disbelieving, plus the exact meaning.
Incredulous meaning
- Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
- Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
- Difficult to believe; incredible.
Synonyms of Incredulous
Using Incredulous
- The main meaning on this page is: Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. | Expressing or indicative of incredulity. | Difficult to believe; incredible.
- Useful related words include: distrustful, disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical.
- In the example corpus, incredulous often appears in combinations such as: an incredulous, incredulous and, was incredulous.
Context around Incredulous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incredulous
- In this selection, "incredulous" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ask, felt, left, viewer, forgetting and charges stand out and add context to how "incredulous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also remains incredulous saying he and an incredulous johnson slammed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incredulous" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incredulous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
O’Toole still sounds incredulous. (5 words)
Stringham remembered turning to her incredulous friend on election night. (10 words)
And they don’t blur out nothing," one incredulous viewer wrote. (11 words)
Since the protest began, we’ve seen violence, including the death of one protestor, as well as dozens of arrests and incredulous charges of domestic terrorism, in some cases, stemming from the Defend the Atlanta Forest Movement. (37 words)
The revolutionary findings from a Cell Press paper published last year have sparked a frenzy of incredulous reactions across the internet, with many struggling to grasp the concept that our leafy companions could be emitting sounds constantly. (37 words)
Dr. Michael Baden, the forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s family to observe his autopsy, also remains incredulous, saying he wanted to hear from the guards before deciding whether it was suicide or homicide. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
And they don’t blur out nothing," one incredulous viewer wrote.
I ask, incredulous, forgetting that my husband Lee, a director in the energy sector, has made the bed (very nicely) twice in the last week.
In his written evidence, the performer said he felt “incredulous” about Mr Fox’s initial tweet calling for a boycott of Sainsbury’s.
Since the protest began, we’ve seen violence, including the death of one protestor, as well as dozens of arrests and incredulous charges of domestic terrorism, in some cases, stemming from the Defend the Atlanta Forest Movement.
Wade was left incredulous - and incensed - when no wide was called by the square leg umpire, with the veteran gesturing angrily at the non-call.
When I ask if he still does it, he giggles, incredulous.
But sometimes, like this week, you find yourself so incredulous it’s almost hard to breathe.
Despite Aaron Collins’s incredulous miss early on, Wanderers headed into the interval in the lead on Boxing Day thanks to a fierce strike from Klaidi Lolos.
Ma & Pa Pinstripe were completely incredulous over the Yankee fan taking the ball out of Mookie Betts’ glove.
The post has gone viral with 7.3 million views and received lots of comments from incredulous users.
The revolutionary findings from a Cell Press paper published last year have sparked a frenzy of incredulous reactions across the internet, with many struggling to grasp the concept that our leafy companions could be emitting sounds constantly.
Fellow model Hailey Bieber left a series of increasingly incredulous comments.
Former vice president Joe Biden appeared alternately incredulous, amused, confused and pained by the experience, letting out a “Would you shut up?” within the first 20 minutes of Trump’s incessant interjections.
He was incredulous that is was $1600 per bottle and, outraged, exclaimed, "I wanted good value.
It was ludicrous enough for even one of his most ardent supporters, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, to appear incredulous during a recent interview.
O’Toole still sounds incredulous.
Stringham remembered turning to her incredulous friend on election night.
They were incredulous: ‘Carol is a needle in a haystack,’ they said.
An incredulous Johnson slammed city and state officials for falling short in its review of the project’s costs.
Dr. Michael Baden, the forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s family to observe his autopsy, also remains incredulous, saying he wanted to hear from the guards before deciding whether it was suicide or homicide.
Common combinations with incredulous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an incredulous 5×
- incredulous and 4×
- was incredulous 3×
- from incredulous 2×
- incredulous that 2×
- were incredulous 2×
- be incredulous 2×
- incredulous at 2×
- as incredulous 2×
- incredulous as 2×