How to Use silly in a Sentence

silly

1 of 2 adjective

• The book was a silly waste of time.
• The idea does seem a bit silly.
• I'm tired of watching silly movies.
• Ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
• Silly me. I locked myself out of the car again.
• You drove in this weather? What a silly thing to do!
• I hope I didn't make any silly mistakes.
• That's the silliest thing I've ever heard.
• What a silly little purse. It looks too small to hold everything that I'd need to carry.
• One of the silly ones, in the shape of a crown, with a band that wraps around the chin.
  — Sarah John, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• But at least the Browns have had the sense not to put that silly elf on the helmet. 29.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Lopatin finds most of the hand-wringing about A.I. to be silly.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
• In one shot, Teigen held Wren while Miles made a silly face for the camera.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• The idea that Shapiro—or anyone else—knows Thomas’s heart is silly.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• And then the last bit, the banter, is just the one take of us going in the studio and being silly.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 7 June 2023
• This isn’t the first time Aniston’s silly dogs have gotten in the way of her routine.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Is this a silly reason to hope for a Chiefs x 49ers Super Bowl?
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
• Still, the launch met with a fair amount of mockery for making the wearer look, well, silly.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 8 June 2023
• The post included a sweet image of Clara and her dad making silly faces in the kitchen.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• Broccoli doesn’t have a last name, silly. Knock, knock.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 29 Aug. 2023
• What seemed like the most important thing in the world at the time—the very thing that consumed you—seems silly now in hindsight.
  — Shane Parrish, Time, 6 Oct. 2023
• Most of the charm is in collecting the cartoon cats and watching them do silly cat stuff.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
• Who shat on the floor at my wedding?, a silly whodunnit that wrapped two and a half years ago, is grazing the top of the charts.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
• Using an artist as a selfie background is not cool and kind of lame and silly.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Give yourself the grace to make mistakes, sound silly, be silly, or do what feels right for you.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• The set includes a can of web fluid—which is similar to silly string.
  — Erica Puisis, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• When nothing else seems to work, making silly faces is bound to crack a smile—even if just for a second.
  — Alex Vance, Parents, 23 Jan. 2026
• Jones is more outgoing, has a silly laugh and is a former first-round pick who wears garish suits on game day.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
• Barrymore adds fresh lemon juice, basil and red pepper flakes, making a silly sound after adding the spice.
  — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026

silly

2 of 2 adverb

• Who can’t recall at least a few of the strange and downright silly-sounding gifts mentioned (repeatedly) in the lyrics, which range from a partridge in a pear tree all the way up to 12 drummers drumming?
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Sep. 2020
• Like most shotgun weddings of horror cinema and rock, however, this one ends up silly rather than scary.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• The trade tussle is silly given the countries’ proximity to and reliance on one another.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• To be fair, the story is largely about the insular and silly-sounding vocabulary of designers.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• Elon Musk's company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2025
• Dwight catches him there and after beating him silly, strings up Dunmire over a stack of logs.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
• Veep, to me, is a satire, because that’s taking a very serious thing and turning it silly.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025