Example sentences for: platitudes

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

  • It seems especially stupid for the administration to spew platitudes about the panel's mission of healing if its intention was to push one side of a contentious debate.

  • So let me turn from the ridiculous to the sublimely horrible, and from Britain to a place where they can only dream of a politics of contented, recycled platitudes: Russia.

  • His performance adds little to his script, and his script adds little to the subject, arriving mostly at familiar platitudes about Israel.

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

  • General Assembly, the president moved beyond vague generalities and into comforting platitudes as he discussed poverty (against it), health care for all people (for it), and outbreaks of widespread killing (should do something to stop them).


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