| 1. | Ralph sprang to his feet with a ludicrous expression. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | Losberne, with a most ludicrous mixture of fear and perplexity. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | All her illness and treatment struck her as a thing so stupid, ludicrous eve. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Strange to relate, this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 5. | Now commenced a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the extreme. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 6. | Pity has an almost ludicrous effect on a man of knowledge, like tender hands on a Cyclops. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | Nor did I ever regard him as having anything ludicrous about him--or anything but what was serious, honest, and good--in his tutor communication with me. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | Glaucon said, with a ludicrous earnestness By the light of heaven, how amazin. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | Just such a distasteful sensation was what Mihailov felt at the sight of Vronsky's painting he felt it both ludicrous and irritating, both pitiable and offensive. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |