Example sentences for: silly

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

  • Isn't it a little silly that the same sort of people who bitch about school prayer and public-school vouchers spent on religious education are ready to lay down their lives to protect the government's right to subsidize art that desecrates religious figures in the most sophomoric way imaginable?

  • Good job tenure, that is--because in yet another column, she sneers at Sara Davidson for working on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman . Why can't the silly creature get a perfect job like hers?

  • Adding camp to an already silly show, this week's episode features former small-screen stars Erik Estrada ( CHiPs ), Adam West ( Batman ), Susan Olsen ( The Brady Bunch ), and Danny Bonaduce ( The Partridge Family ).

  • But show me someone like the Wu-Tang Clan--whom Miller groups with Manson as "musically crude, gleefully obscene, and just plain silly" (as well as "the triumph of the psychopathic adolescent")--and I think Miller's simply not listening.

  • Also annoying: the obligatory "Dancing Around Like Idiots" scene (Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco Chronicle ) and "estrogen-soaked soundtrack" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). A few indulgent critics call it a "guilty pleasure" that is "transcendentally silly" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). (Visit the official site.)


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