Example sentences for: innocuous

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

  • Trophies of war--from helmets, bayonets, and other innocuous spoils to the grisly byproducts of dismemberment--have a long, if not proud, history.

  • This was a wall poster containing innocuous camp news items, all painstakingly penned by hand.

  • The most embarrassing Portuguese malapropism I committed took place in Brazil, where terms innocuous in continental Portuguese have transmuted into dangerous slang.

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

  • Each year since 1976, they have published a List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use or General Uselessness, and each year news media across the continent gleefully and unthinkingly report their edicts—which this year included the fairly innocuous verbs skyrocket and spearhead .


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