Example sentences for: harmless

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

  • How many people need words like desiccate, didactic, innocuous, immutable , etc., when dry up, instructive, harmless , and unchanging or unchangeable are around?

  • It's pretty harmless when actor Edward Norton's character, Alan Isaacman, stands in for the numerous lawyers Flynt hired through his ongoing court battles (which numbered more than the four the film describes).

  • But in some relatively harmless cases (Russia) we should let banks fail--otherwise gambling investors will never learn their lesson.

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • This would be a quick, simple, and (unless Starr and Bennett are lying) harmless way to settle a troublesome issue.


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