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.

  • The colors are muted and staid, the illustrations as innocuous, impeccable, and dispassionate as those you would find in an economics textbook.

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

  • Shorter might be too silly or too daring, longer too staid or too sultry, either choice might be too modish or too tawdry.

  • 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.


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