Example sentences for: harmless

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

  • The death of Roy Rogers gets a surprising amount of coverage: sure, a thumbnail picture/reefer at USAT , but also top-front-with-picture at the LAT , below-the-fold-front at the WP , and a big front-page picture/reefer at the NYT . The NYT editorial (!) puts Proust on the plains with, "For many viewers, the picture of Roy Rogers, aglint in the sun, racing across the harmless West upon Trigger, is a picture as invincible to time as a childhood memory."

  • A harmless crevice in your silver-mercury amalgam filling looks like Hell's Canyon.

  • (Actually, it's completely harmless and fairly short.)

  • Without the force of government behind them, Pol Pot would have been fairly harmless and Hitler, a third-rate artist.

  • When a first-edition Powell book goes up for auction on eBay, the same three or four of us bid; I've often thought we should join forces for some harmless price-fixing.


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