Example sentences for: staple

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

  • The Post notes that Gates-on-video is a staple of Microsoft trade show presentations, but in the court tape there was this difference: Gates was a "scowling, slouching man."

  • But the paper's off-lead is probably the bigger story: The earthquake hazard facing Southern California may only be half as great as scientists had been saying, and it's very unlikely that the region will ever experience that staple of Los Angeles small talk, the 8.0 quake, aka The Big One.

  • "Teach Your Toddler Manners" is a staple of every parenting magazine.

  • One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.

  • Next, we see a staple of this year's drug ads--kids gathered in a school hallway.


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