Example sentences for: daft

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

  • It's a giggle, but the idea of a young African-American learning the secrets of the Dark Continent from a 60-plus-year-old Welsh ham has its daft charm: "He's leading me into the jungle," concludes Gooding.

  • The closeness of the sublime and the ridiculous, of the daft and the grand, is central to Stevens.

  • Many are about Mehta's daft colleagues at The New Yorker , such as the guy in the next office:

  • Gore's problem, therefore, is not that he is a "beta" (vice presidents--even Lyndon Johnson--must be) or that he is reserved (so was Lincoln), but that hiring a Dick Morris hanger-on like Naomi Wolf and trying to hide it shows a "stunning lapse in intelligence," a daft inability to perceive what will mobilize and what will alienate the voters.

  • In particular, Plotz's notion that adventures used to be (and need to be) driven by practical considerations, such as opening trade routes, strikes me as daft.


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