INCREDULITY in a Sentence

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65 example sentences for INCREDULITY, such as:

1. Much attention and incredulity.
2. I am wholly incredulous of the truth of his story.
3. Louisa faintly uttered some word of incredulity and surprise.
4. But incredulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards.
5. Carreen's round little face became pink, as pleasure struggled with incredulity.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCREDULITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incredulity
 n.  disbelief; doubt about the truth of something
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Carreen's round little face became pink, as pleasure struggled with incredulity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  An odd look came over Charles' face, incredulity and shame struggling with love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She raised an aching head, looked at him with startled incredulity and met the pleading eyes of Mammy, who stood behind Gerald's chair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Miss Stepney, in the beginning, had not meant to bring up this point; but Mrs. Peniston had only her own incredulity to blame.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5  She read their incredulity in their averted looks, and in the mute wretchedness of the men behind them, and for a miserable half-second he thought she quivered on the brink of failure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
6  Much attention and incredulity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Mrs. Shelby, being entirely ignorant of her husband's embarrassments, and knowing only the general kindliness of his temper, had been quite sincere in the entire incredulity with which she had met Eliza's suspicions.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Topsy gave the short, blunt laugh that was her common mode of expressing incredulity.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  His face assumed an expression of incredulity as he gazed, and he passed his boney hand over his eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
10  Louisa faintly uttered some word of incredulity and surprise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  The gentleman, however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, opened a pocket-book and took out a note.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
12  But incredulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
13  On my remarking that I was constantly in the habit of doing the same thing you expressed incredulity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
14  I should not have intruded it upon your attention had you not shown some incredulity the other day.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
15  Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Example Sentence:
1  In my experience, most of the incredulity is expressed by people who don't understand how evolution works and aren't acquainted with all evidence.
2  When Jack claimed he hadn't eaten the jelly doughnut, Jill took an incredulous look at his smeared face and laughed.
3  I am wholly incredulous of the truth of his story.