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.

  • 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!)

  • 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.

  • (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.


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