How to Use inanity in a Sentence

inanity

noun

• But this is not the kind of show that deserves acclaim for its inanity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• There is just nothing to like about this spring-forward inanity.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 24 May 2024
• And so, saying poor people choose to be poor and these kind of inanities at the time.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
• In such a realm, the tenet that no one is above the law is a mere platitude, if not an inanity.
  — Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• And in all its inanity, it was still rooted in Kendall’s love for his father.
  — Amos Barshad, WIRED, 26 May 2023
• All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
• My first book was designed to expose the inanity of those, and other, arguments.
  — Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• Bloom, as ever, is quick to point out the inanity of the idea that everyone has to be in-person just because.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• Despite the title, Barnet doesn’t convey the swing and rush of the present so much as its inanity.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• Of course, what happens instead is a dazzling parade of moneyed inanity.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The applause and the tears were part of a mutual liberation from an inanity.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
• On the other hand, there’s something soothing, even enjoyable, about the show’s glossy inanity.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2025
• Forcing them to repeat themselves should prompt them to recognize their own inanity, if not their rudeness.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
• Class disparity was chasmic, inflation had reached a point of inanity and the country seemed to hang its head in shame.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• Of course, griping about the inanity of TikTok can make a person feel dusty and oblivious.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The music movie tries to capture the insanity and inanity of being a modern celebrity.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
• Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career.
  — Philip Kennicott, Twin Cities, 14 June 2019
• The inanity and nihilism is still there, but tinged with something darker and more permanent, a sense that the rules of capitalism changed.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• This column started out as The Week in Stupid, a roundup of the jaw-dropping inanities of the last seven days.
  — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2025
• And Murphy restrains himself from abusing it with the kind of baroque inanity that makes so many of his recent shows so exhausting.
  — Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.
  — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• The conflict is a sustained demonstration of war’s essential inanity.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
• The over-all direction of Musk’s changes hasn’t been too surprising, but the magnitude of the shift—the sheer inanity of it—still shocks me.
  — Sheon Han, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• That’s saying a lot, since The Office was an ode to the crushing boredom and inanity of many white collar workplaces.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• The previous sentence illustrates the inanity of my desire.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• The novel sustains this tone for so long that the reader must scramble to adjust when the lacquer of inanity cracks and all-consuming sorrow pours forth.
  — Jackie Thomas-Kennedy Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• This insight is sort of nihilism lite, and a handy, if somewhat axiomatic, mantra for navigating the inanity of everyday life.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
• Zone Out's script, just like Sunspring's, teeters on the edge of inanity and emotion—which, honestly, puts it right up there with the best of the sci-fi canon.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 June 2018
• For those who worry that the inconsistency and inanity of the roughing the passer calls will somehow damage the game, or cause people to stop watching, please.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022