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Example sentences for: banal

How can you use “banal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My appetite for Talk has been weakened by these "revelations," which seem as banal as they are carefully meted out.
Ah, is there anything that's at once so exhilarating and banal as breaking news?
But it turns out Ivan's goals are more banal: His company is bumping off clients whose genetic profiles indicate big future medical bills.
Coppola has become a studio hack for much more banal reasons.
Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)