Example sentences for: trite

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

  • In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of "nature," but in nature as human nature affects it, too: industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.

  • Genuine immigration abuses are the backdrop for the schlocky murder mystery, Border Line (Monday, NBC, 9 p.m.), which marks the return to television of Sherry Stringfield (formerly of ER ). But the single-mom-in-peril subplot is so trite it's a wonder she can stay awake, never mind the viewer.

  • Disappointed reviewers rate the Spielberg-Katzenberg-Geffen studio's debut just "a notch better than the average predictable action thriller" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Stars George Clooney and Nicole Kidman are said to be perfectly likable but utterly humorless, and the nuclear-terrorism story line is called suspenseful but trite.

  • Culturebox's first thought on reading Diana: In Search of Herself , Sally Bedell Smith's deliriously mean-spirited (though boringly written) catalog of all the ways the late fairy-tale princess turns out to have been troubled, trite, and exasperating, is that the British public didn't get its money's worth from the girl.

  • Shocker: Critics say it's trite and unoriginal (it follows a boy with a demonically possessed hand).


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