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Example sentences for: staid

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Nineteenth-Century English is an interesting if somewhat staid tracing of the development of English into a world language, though its influence today is probably owing directly more to events of the past sixty years than to the growth and spread it enjoyed during the century of colonialism.
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.
Admirably (to many) resisting this commercial tide, the NewsHour seems even more civil and staid.
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 glitzy RNC site suffers from more technological glitches than the DNC's staid enterprise.