Example sentences for: frivolous

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

  • It was too frivolous and perverse.

  • 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.

  • Then they waste time on endless day trading and deplete their bank accounts on frivolous items--watches, suits, cell phones with Web browsers, huge bouquets they'll send to girlfriends alienated by their long hours and tedious business gossip, even though the girlfriends will just throw the flowers in the garbage."

  • It's amazing to me how people can slip in and out of frivolous talk (though I know it serves a socially useful purpose) with seeming ease.

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”


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