It wasn't a very plausible story, but for various reasons I was inclined to believe her.

The vanished paper told a plausible story of its own.

It's probably the least plausible story of Joan you'll ever meet.

She would have to give them a plausible story of rescue.

I worked out a plausible story about getting lost in the woods on the northern end of the island.

And yet it was the beginning of a plausible story.

He continued to tell her plausible stories, but she was not entertained.

A guard who said he saw something moving, but nothing to shoot at, was not telling a plausible story.

"And the priests too: I have told them a plausible story."

It's a plausible story but it doesn't check out in some details.