Example sentences for: nonsensical

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

  • She constantly embellishes her stories and everyday conversation with nonsensical, made-up whimsy that she expects people to take at face value.

  • For example: kith and kin, wrack and ruin ; in German: mit Kind und Kegel, drauf und dran ; in French: sain et sauf . Alongside such fixed combinations, which seem to adhere to their own rhythmic and phonetic rules, are the playful, nonsensical, purely rhythmical and melodious formulations, which distinctly recall the ancient incantatory cantillations characteristic of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and latterday hocus pocus.

  • For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.

  • A. can accept the nonsensical apology, he told me, because Ticketmaster is also offering him a $100 gift certificate for his troubles.

  • Some of these ancient nonsensical magical words enjoyed exceptional longevity.


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