Example sentences for: frivolous

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

  • The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.

  • Clinton also observed that while he'd give anything (!) to go back and undo what he did, "that is simply not possible," perhaps because of technical problems with that CIA time machine because if they could go back and undo stuff, I'll bet they'd save Lincoln or kill Hitler long before they took trips for frivolous reasons, like undoing sexual high jinks.

  • In current American usage, the term resembles what we call kidding: that is, making fun of someone or some thing in a frivolous manner, such as in the obligatory banter at roasts of famous people.

  • But do our cultural mandarins, in the name of "free speech" have the right to frivolous (and likely self-seeking) judgments as to what speech is valuable and what is not?

  • George W. Bush, R-Texas, in polls; that President Clinton's sleaze is rubbing off on Gore; that Gore's attempt to make suburban traffic jams a presidential campaign issue is frivolous; and that Gore shot himself in the foot last week by claiming to have taken "the initiative in creating the Internet."


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