Example sentences for: platitudes

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

  • 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.

  • A Charge to Keep is banal, disorganized, and packed with platitudes, revealing Bush as both boring and filled with "overweening Baby Boomer self-regard."

  • Time slams last week's Internet-porn conference for producing platitudes rather than action.

  • Politicians and journalists pretend to explain this through a series of platitudes, none of which are convincing.

  • But "the Dow Jones industrial average" wasn't part of Brokaw's question--which was a request for something beyond the airy platitudes about compassion that Bush has been delivering.


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