Example sentences for: sillier

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

  • Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."

  • (A name even sillier than Merlin D. Tuttle.

  • ("The master of clean, Calvin Klein pairs thongs and a strapless dress with symmetrical slashes in silver, lending an Eastern flavor to his minimalist ethic"-- Vogue .) Since this prose is often all the public gets, along with a few minimally informative photos, the long-term effect is to keep fashion looking much sillier than it actually is.

  • I thought this was funny, but then again when I was reading these books in public places in preparation for our chat I would make sure to have a notebook and pencil and even my laptop handy, to make clear to the utterly indifferent world that I was working , which probably made me look even sillier.

  • On the other hand, men still don't like to express anxiety directly--I'd guess that part of the reason men's mags have gotten sillier is that they've seized on men's time-honored method of covering up insecurity by clowning around.


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