How to Use folderol in a Sentence

folderol

noun

• I wish we could just discuss these questions without having to go through all the folderol of a formal meeting.
• Such folderol culminates in a terrible crime, which doesn’t shock so much as perplex.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• As this folderol was brewing, Matt started the rose ceremony.
  — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2021
• Kelley seems a little too wised-up for this folderol, and Peter seemed to be urging her to rise to the occasion a bit more.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2020
• Yet most Americans are barely aware of the political folderol that has been going on for years.
  — Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2010
• But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• There’s no folderol, just the facts lined up as if in composition class, the fish cooked slowly in a low oven so that the fat eases out of the flesh to combine with the tart brightness of the lemon juice.
  — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• But even without the virus crisis, Philip would have sought to downplay public folderol about his birthday, in keeping with his non-nonsense personality.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
• As for the delta smelt, the assertion that water is being diverted away from the Central Valley simply to preserve the species is the rankest folderol.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• For all the folderol of who descended from whom and how many titles trail one's name, the noblest and the basest Thrones characters cannot be categorized by dynastic heritage.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• Director Hong Chang-pyo juggles a myriad of concepts, characters and dynamics, plus bits of flashbacks, action and folderol.
  — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Soulier ties together all those odd arm and torso twists, the karate kicks, rolls and the rest of the brutal folderol through meticulous repetition, directional shifts and gestural phrases passed from one dancer to the next.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Firefox and Safari had already deprecated third-party cookies some time ago, without much digital ad industry folderol and no industry input.
  — David Doty, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Given the public’s fixation on Saturday Night Live in 2025, the show’s 50th year—marked by all manner of celebratory folderol, including a big anniversary show and a series of SNL50 mini-docs—most of us have been SNL’ed into exhaustion.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Apr. 2026