How to Use inane in a Sentence

inane

adjective

• The film's plot is inane and full of clichés.
• I quickly tired of their inane comments.
• From the inane ploys to try and trick you — an Obamacare offer!
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 July 2022
• How could something so inane have informed so much of my life?
  — Mira Jacob, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2022
• To create a furor over the innocent use of pronouns is inane.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Asking for more elections is just as inane as asking for more leap years.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• Jackie waits for his response, some inane joke, some way to break the tension of the moment.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• There will be an uproar if the government moves forward with this inane idea to ban gas stoves.
  — WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
• Daniels resists the urge to roll his eyes at the meandering and inane line of questioning.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• But it’s the sort of inane piece of ephemera that can thrive in this madcap NFT world.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• To turn Floyd into a hero of a racialized morality play is inane.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 May 2021
• The plot itself is pretty inane, stupidly funny and clever.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
• Any art about right now has to reckon with the inane malaise of two years spent remembering to pack your kids’ school masks.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• And then the questions were so inane that the anxiety was quickly replaced by boredom and defeat.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 May 2022
• This is so inane coming from someone of Weld’s stature as to be mind-boggling.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019
• Yet its path to the mechanic is being blocked by an inane Supreme Court ruling.
  — Adam Mossoff, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• Can’t the truck figure out that the output and input rates are ramping up in lockstep to sniff out this inane behavior?
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 2 June 2022
• That gave us an inane skit in a toilet stall but cut off articulate and moving speeches that gave a hint of the struggle amid the joy of the spotlight.
  — latimes.com, 15 June 2019
• These seemingly inane questions suffocated us and made the reality of our task feel like a knife in the heart.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• So, where to begin, apart from saying that the entire plan, from basement to penthouse, is inane?
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
• The dialogue that accompanies this act is just as inane, and not worth repeating here.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• And an urge to support all who are imprisoned—especially those on inane charges like less than a gram of cannabis oil—ought to be maintained.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Others drew on equally weak depictions in other movies or shows, leading to an inane feedback loop.
  — Reid Singer, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• In sports, female athletes are often asked the type of inane, patronizing questions that would never be posed to men.
  — Diana Bruk, Cosmopolitan, 5 Nov. 2015
• Sometimes an idiot just acquires a company and starts firing everyone who won’t join his inane ego trip.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 10 Dec. 2022
• Miranda leaves the table with a flourish, performing an inane monologue from one of Arthur’s films and tipping over a glass of wine.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• Two years ago, debating points were all over the map, with the computer able to make one or two really brilliant statements and five or ten inane statements.
  — Edward C. Baig and Ryan Suppe, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
• Kelly, a man of honor & decency, should stop this inane cruelty.
  — Anne Gearan, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• The root cause was inane, but the display of devoted camaraderie of the Lunchpail AC was a sight to behold.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Some performers offered banter that was just as inane as what writers usually provide.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024