How to Use banal in a Sentence

banal

adjective

• The writing was banal but the story was good.
• He made some banal remarks about the weather.
• The hotels all had bidets, of course, much to the banal amusement and confusion of the adolescent boys in our group.
  — Mary Novaria, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• What's often forgotten about the DNC hack is how banal the emails were.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 20 May 2017
• To not to suck or be banal, or be so conventional that the power and strangeness of that incident got leeched out of the book.
  — Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2017
• Somewhere, at the heart of it, there's nothing more or less banal than the classic American hunger for a quick and easy buck.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 May 2017
• Let’s be blunt: a White House ceremony for a championship sports team is a pretty banal affair.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2017
• Exhibition and exploitation seem painfully linked in an era where selfies are the norm and sexting scandals have become banal.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2017
• Even banal things like making a cup of tea or reading a particular newspaper headline seem familiar.
  — Pat Long, CNN, 1 June 2017
• The trend can probably be attributed to TikTok’s demand for sounds that make banal images seem profound.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
• Helmed by three 25-year-olds, the company offers software to automate banal tasks like research, finding numbers and taking notes.
  — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• There were brief hospital stays, but doctors found his symptoms bewildering, and offered diagnoses as banal as growing pains and as serious as cancer.
  — Alexis Coe, Town & Country, 26 May 2017
• Those non-verbal nuggets symbolizing every lifestyle, emotion, food, and sport are used to dress up banal text messages, throwing in splashes of color and individualism.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• The most banal words, but there are never the right words.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• The words Eliza sings are banal, but the sound behind them is the force of destiny.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• Even the banal chitchat that opens the show mesmerizes.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• The truth of the love triangle was both more banal and more strange.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• And that’s just one side of the building, running along a banal strip of the boulevard.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Just because evil is banal doesn’t mean a movie has to be.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• And that fact alone brings a new meaning—and a new weight—to even the most banal of our pleasantries.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• But contrary to the banal refrain, all press isn’t good press.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• The stakes and the spectacles are as grand as the evil is chillingly banal.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• And yet, the facts on the ground in the real-life cases were so chillingly banal.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• After all, aren’t most of us trapped in the same day over and over again, trying to find meaning in the banal?
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017
• We’ve all gotten mired in banal small talk at some point.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 23 May 2017
• So as with a lot of things in Hollywood, the line between glamor and the banal is very thin.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• No longer quite so normal, Rooney reaches for the banal and grasps tiny worlds.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• It’s in the more banal details of life after catastrophe that the film rings most true.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
• Carmel Greer: My goal was to create a house that felt comfortable and easy to live in, but wasn’t just banal.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 25 Nov. 2019
• The scenery was lovely but the conversation was banal; the books in his library were fakes.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024