Example sentences for: frivolous

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

  • The candy-store colors that Close reined in for decades return here with a vengeance, but they seem more frivolous than emotionally charged.

  • Or they could replace the Latin-translation portion of the evening with--oh, I don't know, something frivolous.

  • 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.”

  • Would audiences placidly accept such a frivolous reordering of nature?

  • Or the rage-filled victim of abuse and feminist crusader of A Room of One's Own . Or, to her detractors, a frivolous gossip.


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