Example sentences for: silly

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

  • But it's silly to prize optimism for its own sake in a public figure, irrespective of whether that optimism is justified.

  • I think it is silly to think of a backlash against a woman who has, to date, sold no more than 25,000 copies of any of her books.

  • It gets mired in techno-speak and stars the dopey-looking Scott Bakula ( Quantum Leap ), who is no Harrison Ford, though even Harrison Ford would look silly saying things like, "Run all our emergency utility programs.

  • Ah feel silly."

  • All but a few whitewash his Mafia ties, brawling, silly grudges, boozing, racism, womanizing, and the fact that "he not infrequently resembled a thug" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ).


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