Unlikely (of story)

Usage examples of farfetched.

And it was too much for her to grasp all at once, and too farfetched, really, for her to want to repeat her thoughts to anyone, even Jhone.

Young Jorv thinks they have some way of taking extra air along, but that seems farfetched, clever little beasts though they are.

I stand up and consider my last statement, one of the most farfetched I have recently made.

Search your work for any metaphor that seems cliched, strained, farfetched or simply inaccurate.

In the previous chapter we discussed how a figure of speech fails when images are too farfetched or mixed, or when one image cancels out the other.

That was what Jacqueline had been waiting to hearher own farfetched hypothesis voiced by an independent observer.

If not for her ploy, Felicity knew her chances of visiting Randwulf Manor or, more farfetched, being invited to join aristocrats at their leisure would have been nil.

This unexpected thought immediately seemed silly, farfetched, and overly imaginative.

If the other diners did harbor such a thought, it was not so farfetched, really.

Not only did all of his aspirations, no matter how farfetched or ill conceived, go up in smoke, but so did whatever remnants were left of his humanity.

I think he advanced the rather farfetched notion that his disappearing into strangling darkness with an unknown menacing male indicated unconscious fears of homosexuality, while I championed the prosier explanation that the whole horror of oil might merely stand for his resentment at having to work as a mechanic to earn a living.

And when the scientists got down to talking more about it, the apparent miracle-workings of some of the Ents began to sound less farfetched.

But, for the moment, just let me tell you another farfetched story about one of the naguals of my line, the nagual Sebastian.

Another reason for the policy of secrecy, seemingly farfetched but not totally disprovable, was that there might actually be berserker hardware right here on the base, disguised as something else.

He could think of nothing better on this cold, rainy morning than knowing what she thought about how their people might react to the farfetched British enticements should Admiral Cockburn's men actually capture St.