Example sentences for: staid

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • South of the more staid Marina del Rey, the world’s largest small-boat harbor, the beaches continue in an unbroken golden curve — Dockweiler, Manhattan, Hermosa, Redondo — to the rocky bluffs of Palos Verdes.


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