inane

in a sentence

He gestures towards the general, who smiles inanely at his own put-down.  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

Must we go on with this inane conversation?  (source) J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951

She looked through the tattered curtain, across at the handsome face of her husband ... behind whose inane smile, she could now so plainly see the strength, energy, and resourcefulness...  (source) Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905

Of course, I hadn't really been watching their inane corporate shitcom every night.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Logs that bleed, Tyrion thought inanely as the second man came for him.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

A sign was erected — The Colonel Parkman Park, which sounded inane and three rustic picnic tables and a plastic waste bin and a couple of portable toilet cubicles were placed there, for the convenience of out-of-town visitors it was said, though these preferred to guzzle their beer and strew their trash somewhere with a clearer view of the river.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

I agree that the world is a pretty crappy place most of the time,' he said, and then added inanely: 'Especially when it rains.†  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

The hostess began reading choice excerpts from the inane article, and Langdon felt himself sinking lower and lower in his chair.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I babble inanely to distract myself from the freaking out!†  (source) Madeleine Roux, Asylum, 2013

I was fading out myself—ears ringing, inane buzz and a metallic taste in my mouth like at the dentist's—and I might have drifted back into unconsciousness and stayed there had he not at some point shaken me, hard, so I awoke with a buck of panic.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

"So," I say inanely.†  (source) Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, 2001

Cinder gaped, waiting for the doctor to continue, to move past his inane lie and start telling the prince all of her secrets.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Suddenly, I felt dizzy and sat down and stared dumbly at the scarlet geyser until I started to giggle again, and then we all giggled inanely at each other.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998