Example sentences for: boilerplate

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

  • When I asked Ferraro about her key issues, her answer was boilerplate: "Education," the struggling economy of upstate New York, D'Amato's "horrendous" record.

  • Prusiner's boilerplate response to prion critics has been that if mad-cow disease or any of the other "prion diseases" is caused by a virus, then surely that virus would have been discovered by now.

  • Yes, differences in interpretation remain and, after the Clinton Communion, commentators ritualistically recited the theological boilerplate I learned in parochial school: Catholics regard the Eucharist as a sacrifice, while for Protestants it is a mere memorial.

  • One oddity of this political moment is that while our Democratic president has no special love of civil liberties, civil libertarian sentiment is growing in the unlikely soil of the GOP--where vilification of the American Civil Liberties Union has been campaign boilerplate, at least until recently.

  • These books are all works of diplomatic history, thick with policy analysis, institutional boilerplate, and unabashed second-guessing.


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