Example sentences for: callow

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

  • Miller occasionally writes a brilliant line, such as Willy's response to the callow boss who fires him after 35 years--"You can't eat an orange and throw the peel away."

  • The narrator is an unhappy ad copy writer whose callow husband has fallen for a would-be Miss America contestant.

  • But since I was recently called a "callow, superficial, self-obsessed bunny" by one of Slate 's readers (I didn't mind the adjectives, but "bunny" kind of hurt), I guess I should skip the Kevin Smith and Moesha ruminations and get on to the "grown-up" news (damn, that means I have to skip the Journal feature on the @ symbol!)

  • Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.

  • His is the perfect art for boosters, wannabes, new money, and self-conscious arrivistes . In other words, perfect for the precociously wealthy, culturally callow New Northwest.


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