Words similar to banal

Example sentences for: banal

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

Perhaps the tabloids' loaf was sliced just a little too thin, but there seems to be an unusually high ratio of tantalizing headlines to banal copy this month.
Of course when I am not working I am usually watching my MTV ." Home page Lewinsky came across as banal at best, empty-headed at worst.
Bucking the consensus on The Ice Storm, the New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann excoriates director Ang Lee: "[E]verything in his directing, absolutely everything, is banal."
Ah, is there anything that's at once so exhilarating and banal as breaking news?
Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.