Example sentences for: staid

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

  • She was hired because she's a managerial whiz who helped transform Lucent from a staid spin-off of AT&T into a prototypical bleeding-edge company.

  • And each year at festival time, Edinburgh willingly gives its streets over to stilt walkers, automatons, satirists, and barbershop quartets along with 500,000 visitors — belying its reputation for being sober and staid.

  • after the staid snowfalls the rain now splashy as children

  • The glitzy RNC site suffers from more technological glitches than the DNC's staid enterprise.

  • But Bill Haley and Elvis painted Broadway into a corner it never quite got out of: Musicals stood aloof from rock and became, by definition, staid, conservative, middle-aged--something your parents go see on their wedding anniversary.


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