Example sentences for: silly

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

  • He is downright silly to claim that Meinungsfreiheit (it should be one word and capitalized, as all German nouns are), Weltreise (obviously not Wettreise, which would mean a trip to make a bet--only Phileas Fogg combined the two), and Freizeit have now found a place in the world of linguistic glasnost.

  • No, it's not that silly remark about him having invented it.

  • An even sillier "silly season" story, appearing the same day on the front pages of the Times and the Financial Times , concerned the British government's decision to establish a task force to study the threat of an asteroid hitting Earth and destroying all life on the planet.

  • Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.

  • He has attached himself to the usual list of silly far-right causes: no U.S. troops under U.N. command, a two-thirds majority to raise taxes, a flag-burning amendment, etc.


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