Example sentences for: silly

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

  • GOLDBERG: Unless you get that silly, vapid, trampy time bomb

  • What makes a book silly?

  • (This damning detail was reported earlier in Time .) Another hobby was appearing in high-school variety shows, where he dressed as a girl--the Enquirer publishes a silly, but less than titillating, example of this proclivity.

  • It "descends into a silly season" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). (The studio trumpets the movie here.)

  • In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.


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