Example sentences for: folderol

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

  • Unlike a modern corporate logo designed by professional graphics people, where minimalism and self-justifying folderol are key, a government seal ought to embody clutter and boneheaded symbolism.

  • Mixed in with this is a lot of elegiac folderol about herding the old-fashioned way, on horseback, rather than in trucks or boxcars.

  • Folderol (or falderal ) is drawn from the meaningless syllables sung in the refrains of many English folksongs, “fol-de-rol-deray.”

  • It's that under the laws of various states, a prize turns these innocent amusements into a form of gambling, which creates more legal folderol than we are prepared to handle.

  • The high point of Kempton's essay on the Hollywood 10 is a list of the folderol the blacklisted screenwriters actually produced--with excerpts from the glowing reviews they received from the Daughters of the American Revolution.


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