Example sentences for: frivolous

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

  • The other, more frivolous consequence of a Flytrap Only report will be to sow confusion among Clinton's critics.

  • Perhaps the subject and treatment of usage need some lightening up, but I am hard put to agree that they are quite as frivolous and light-headed as this book would have us believe.

  • with equal parts astonished admiration and mounting horror at the calculated brazenness of it all" (Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times ). Clarissa Cruz ( Entertainment Weekly ) finds that parts of the dialogue are "laugh out loud funny," but overall it's "a frivolous read that's far more titillating than scintillating."

  • 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."

  • My worry is that we will ignore important human needs at the expense of frivolous human desires; that dominant social norms will crowd out those of the minority; that the self-improvement agenda will be set not by individuals, but by powerful corporate interests; and that in the pursuit of betterment, we will actually make ourselves worse off.


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