Example sentences for: callow

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

  • One of the lobbyists was a callow and garrulous young man named Derek Draper who had been a close aide to Blair and his deputies.

  • 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.

  • His churlishness isn't compelling, it's just an embarrassment, a callow cry for attention.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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