Example sentences for: staid

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

  • after the staid snowfalls the rain now splashy as children

  • Free from the confines of the International Festival’s rules and regulations, the Fringe has become synonymous with art that “pushes the envelope,” and it has grown to eclipse its more staid official brother.

  • Just as the staid, old British English was rejuvenated after the First World Was by the injection of American, no-nonsense grittiness, so modern American English is being saved; this time by the charge of honest and potent street-talk into the flim-flam and flummery of the body linguistic.

  • , bringing a wilder, more imaginative spirit to the staid old company.

  • Admirably (to many) resisting this commercial tide, the NewsHour seems even more civil and staid.


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