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 most banal words, but there are never the right words.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• 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
• Just because evil is banal doesn’t mean a movie has to be.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• The stakes and the spectacles are as grand as the evil is chillingly banal.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• And that’s just one side of the building, running along a banal strip of the boulevard.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• 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
• We’ve all gotten mired in banal small talk at some point.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 23 May 2017
• But contrary to the banal refrain, all press isn’t good press.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 9 May 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
• And yet, the facts on the ground in the real-life cases were so chillingly banal.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• It’s in the more banal details of life after catastrophe that the film rings most true.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
• The most banal aspects of daily life have become a torment.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
• The other half of the movie is much less interesting, even banal.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• The objects inside could have been shipped in a banal envelope.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Some of the cars in that film were actually pretty banal.
  — Lewis Wallace, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2007
• The only health advice more banal than being told to wash your hands is being told to sleep more.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2020
• The scenery was lovely but the conversation was banal; the books in his library were fakes.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• Part of the film’s charm is in how seemingly banal moments take on a more tender feel.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2020
• Among the young, basic has been sharpened into an insult slung at the banal.
  — Leah Eskin, charlotteobserver, 26 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• But there are a million humbler ways that his—and my—most banal thoughts might be useful.
  — Lauren Silverman, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
• Leave it to Solange to inject some fresh air into something so banal.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 15 May 2018
• The more banal, the more commonplace, the more predictable, the triter, the staler, the dumber, the better.
  — Don Delillo, Mao II, 1991
• There are a number of very common uses for balloons, some creepy and some banal.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• Two lives severed by the banal cruelty of drunk driving.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024