Example sentences for: callow

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

  • (To be fair, though, I did believe it when McConaughey's callow, mushy character is later hired by the Clinton White House as a spiritual adviser.)

  • Indeed, in the week when Warren didn't declare, and some callow pundit on CNN all but called him a communist, Jesse Ventura, interviewed in Playboy by Lawrence Grobel, was the single refreshing waft of normality.

  • The protagonist, Steven Phillips (Brooks), is a middle-aged screenwriter whose three-picture deal is terminated by a callow executive (Mark Feuerstein) who tells him he no longer has his "edge."

  • The stories weren't necessarily written in the decade they're filed under: The opening work, "The Moslem Wife," about Netta, a strangely sheltered Englishwoman who lives in Southern France with her callow husband Jack, evokes the Vichy period but was written in 1976.

  • "He's like the kid in Rushmore , a callow narcissist."


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