Example sentences for: harmless

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

  • 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 when someone dies of trauma, as most earthquake victims did, the decomposition process is harmless, if disgusting.

  • Much of this, to be sure, is harmless nonsense, such as the installation instructions that come with popular software products.

  • Why must people be ironical instead of ironic , or satirical instead of satiric ? The - ate suffix, originally a harmless suffix to denote causative verbs such as substantiate from substance, is particularly pernicious.

  • Seth Stevenson's "Dispatch" from a recent NASCAR race, however, illustrates how easily such "harmless" prejudices collapse into crude stereotypes.


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