How to Use callow in a Sentence

callow

adjective

• Those flaws could be seen as the reckless mistakes of callow disrupters.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 8 June 2019
• Some read as callow and lazy, while others as wholly compelling.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 May 2018
• The Sox had to claim players off waivers and promote callow prospects to fill the holes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• The childhood death of her daughter Robin is invoked for callow laughs.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 13 July 2017
• That version has its own callow charm, a pretty if earnest performance that only hints at the song’s depths.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
• The younger versions of Noah and Allie, callow and skittish, are laid out in broad strokes.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• One of my callow missteps was in planting a formal hedge as the pretentious backbone of my first garden.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• During the first half of the movie, Butler seems at times too callow as the Presley of the Fifties.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2022
• But Gould, a deep thinker and restless interpreter, came to see the recording as an artifact of his callow youth.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
• Rachel is, of course, more than a match for the passionate and well-meaning but ultimately callow Philip.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• Deacon hoped this time his talented yet callow squad would be able to play to its potential and avoid too many final-round dramatics.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021
• Its first act, when the characters are youthful and callow, is delightfully comic.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 27 May 2018
• The callow young Yvain, as a protagonist, isn’t learning to be king, like Arthur is, or even learning to be good.
  — Maile Meloy, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Strife and suffering are a refiner’s fire; the pieties of a soft prosperity are callow, empty, thin.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Headley paints a picture of reckless, callow men caught in a cycle of ecological self-destruction.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• About all of these callow, absent husbands, who show up late and immediately start advising?
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• This may seem melodramatic to you now, but the moment was more than a callow teen-ager, mostly unacquainted with death or real pain, could bear.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
• The Gunners were once famous for nurturing callow foreigners but lost patience with that approach five years ago.
  — M.j., The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• This was not a callow performer thrown into a TV starring role, as so often has happened in the medium's history.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 May 2021
• Peter is an antic fellow, a drunken callow clown with a knack for celebrity impersonation — a buffoon who becomes an easy victim.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• There’s little overt menace to this Paul, who mostly registers as a sincere, sensitive, if callow hero-in-the-making.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• His callow-millennial act — and the navel-gazing vagaries of modern content culture — make fertile ground for satire, and many of the jokes here do find their soft targets.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 July 2022
• The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover-up of what really happened.
  — baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• For a callow team that might as well wear Underoos under their big boy pants, confidence could be a concern after back-to-back humiliations.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2021
• Charlotte, meanwhile, is a case study in the limits young straight women encounter when searching for connection in a dating pool of callow, untrustworthy males.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• The success of an offense without starting QB questions and loaded at the skill positions hinges on the growth of a callow O-line.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The script, penned by playwright Clifford Odets, called for Presley to play a callow country boy loaded with literary talent.
  — Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• The Gators’ callow roster features 13 of 22 starters who are freshmen or sophomores, including seven on offense.
  — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Already teed up by Cawthorn's callow election night victory tweet, the outrage from the left was swift, and much of it focused specifically on Cawthorn's evangelism.
  — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 19 Nov. 2020
• Rohmer is still very young, to be sure, maybe somewhat callow, but these highly discerning insights into conflicting emotions and human psychology will end up appearing in all of his films.
  — André Aciman, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026