Example sentences for: platitudes

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

  • Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.

  • … [H]e retreats behind religious platitudes, empty sloganeering and half-truths."

  • Since I believe that "normal" Western politics is the politics of platitudes (and looking at Russia, perhaps we should not knock that), I am going to pick up my theme of our democratic, domestic rhetoric and come back to your turf, that of history, in a reverse manner.

  • My friend W. G. (Lord) Runciman, the businessman and sociologist at Trinity (quite a combination), calls it "recycled platitudes."

  • . The tapes overflow with Polonius platitudes: "Be true to yourself"; "People don't care what you know till they know that you care."


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