Sample Sentences forbanal (editor-reviewed)
-
•
The movie was banal, but it led to a fascinating conversation.banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
-
•
The story was banal, but it had beautiful cinematography.banal = too commonplace to be interesting
-
•
And before I could offer the usual banal suggestions she confided in me. (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat. (source)
-
•
As we see in folk music quite often, emotion transforms what might otherwise be considered 'corny' (i.e. trite, banal, sentimental) music into valid, moving art. (source)
-
•
Time is too valuable to hear banal information repeated. (source)banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
-
•
Effie makes me say a hundred banal phrases starting with a smile, while smiling, or ending with a smile. (source)banal = uninteresting (due to a lack of anything original or unusual)
-
•
she had failed to understand his apprehensive attempts to save their love from banality (source)banality = being uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
-
•
such banalities as "You look so good I could just eat you up" ... (source)banalities = things that are uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
-
•
If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal—but who wants to do that? (source)banal = uninteresting due to lack of anything unusual
-
•
(Finally she forces herself to speak a banality:) Oh, Mama, you shouldn't have. (source)banality = something uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
-
•
Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated.† (source)
-
•
Was this so banal? Was this so unprofound and stupid? (source)banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
-
•
She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."† (source)
-
•
But you know he was natural, in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.† (source)
-
•
And so I told him the banal old stuff and he blessed me and dismissed me. (source)
▲ show less (of above)