Example sentences for: staid

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

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

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

  • It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?

  • Jerusalem has a staid reputation, but take a stroll in the New City in the area around Ben Yehuda Street and Yoel Salomon Street and you’ll find lots going on most evenings, including a handful of discos, several music bars and “pubs,” and narrow streets congested with tables and thronging with locals and tourists.

  • 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.


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