Example sentences for: hackneyed

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

  • (Nowadays at the Journal , it's considered somewhat hackneyed actually to include the phrase "to be sure" in your "to be sure" paragraph.)

  • Both USAT and the Post begin a paragraph with the same hackneyed sentence: "The carnage was widespread."

  • 2) The film begins as an intelligent exploration of the origins of hate and ends as a hackneyed cautionary tale.

  • The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.

  • Dissenters gripe about hackneyed dialogue, stock characters, and too much melodrama.


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