Example sentences for: banalities

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

  • Nicholson shouts workplace banalities while waving his bat: "Have you ever thought for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers?"

  • Time derides John Gray, the author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus , as an egomaniacal huckster who's making millions selling banalities to vulnerable couples.

  • Alice Truax calls it "an excellent novel about enduring the banalities of ordinary life" ( The New Yorker ). Suzanne Berne in the New York Times Book Review agrees: "one of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place."

  • (In fact, even the banalities I've just written are actually the subject of intense controversy.)

  • It was "a personal, bare-knuckled contest, fought and lost on the banalities of local politics."


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