"You still persist in that absurd story about the girl!"

"He said you had made up some absurd story, but that it was clear what, in fact, you were after."

The natives told absurd stories of demons who had sworn we should never pass over their mountain.

The press is told that the absurd story was concocted in order to flush her out.

I expect it has something to do with all those absurd stories you read just before you go to sleep.

Now, however, I wonder if the absurd story is true.

That is a much more unbelievable and - from your point of view - absurd story than the girl's.

Or would you, more likely, have called it an absurd story'?

This absurd story began improbably, as these things do.