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.
• And that was just a silly dream.
  — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
• To lose that would be silly now.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
• This was a very silly thing to say.
  — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• What a silly girl, what a way of life.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
• That might seem a bit silly at first glance.
  — David Szondy june 14, New Atlas, 14 June 2026
• My smart, sassy and silly girl!
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
• Maara is a silly goose who knows how to switch it up.
  — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
• This would have all seemed a bit silly a few years ago.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• The onus put on actors is so silly to me.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• It was supposed to be a silly prank.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
• Some moments are silly or soft or light.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
• The singing voice is silly for someone to try and do that.
  — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
• Which now seems so quaint to be almost silly.
  — Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
• At face value, this might all seem quite silly.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026
• My sons love books that are sweet and silly in equal measure.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
• Don’t feel silly asking at the ski shop.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
• Not bad for a silly movie about killer worms from outer space.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026
• There are no silly games being played.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
• There are no silly games being played.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
• There are no silly games being played.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• And the silly lip-syncing doesn't end there!
  — Ellie Beeck, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025

silly

2 of 2 adverb

• Veep, to me, is a satire, because that’s taking a very serious thing and turning it silly.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 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
• Secretary Hegseth called it silly.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• With drones zooming around her Rhode Island home, a big backyard tent feels, well, kind of silly.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• On the other hand, silly dare ideas are bound to provide endless laughter while tightening your bond.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Like most shotgun weddings of horror cinema and rock, however, this one ends up silly rather than scary.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Rocky also shared multiple other photos of the three posing for the cameras and acting silly in the mirror.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• The Tumbler, like everything else Ember makes, is a silly guilty pleasure of a device.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some soften around sadness, get vigilant around tension, or turn extra silly around happiness.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
• Any worker that’s going to throw a selfish, silly fit over something that keeps their bosses — that’s us — safe deserves the dismissal that’s coming their way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• 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
• That probably sounds silly considering the Browns are 1-5.
  — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• Muay Thai is a martial art that combines punching, kicking, elbowing, kneeing, clinching and foot jabs to knock your opponent silly.
  — Abby Ellin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
• During hypnosis, the critical nature of the mind is bypassed and the subconscious mind is in a more suggestible state, hence why subjects act so silly and uninhibited on stage.
  — Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
• 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, 20 Nov. 2019
• This is the lowest price yet for the powered wet mop that’s a cousin to the silly-sounding-but-awesome Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones vacuum.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 24 June 2026
• Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho is one such awkward fusion, ultimately just coming off as silly.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
• This whole thing seems staged, planned, finagled, massaged, bamboozled, lollygagged, and all sorts of other long, silly-sounding words that may not necessarily apply to this situation.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
• The film is a sensory smorgasbord, the scuba diving adventure of your dreams, especially when seen on a massive screen in 3D with huge speakers, and would be downright silly viewed on a smartphone.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• Now Athie and Rashad both deliver committed performances of the pulpy material, almost good enough to excuse the movie’s silly-looking special effects and patchy writing.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• In this boring policymaking context, AB 1421 is fine and the social media hysteria pretty silly.
  — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 8 Feb. 2026
• Read the issue » There is something a bit funny, at any rate, about pop-music criticism, which purports to offer serious analysis of a form that is often considered (by other people, who are also, in a sense, critics) rather silly.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• With a silly-sounding 1,000 metric horsepower under my right foot, the SF90 should be sliding sideways through this devilish stretch of the Pista di Fiorano test track.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2022
• The mix of content on TikTok — videos of cats vomiting in a toilet interspersed with people acting silly in their pajamas — can be mystifying for political consultants trying to implant a traditional message.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• The Broncos used big play after big play to amass a silly-sounding 637 yards of offense and consistently thrill the Albertsons Stadium crowd of 32,887 — officially the ninth home sellout in a row.
  — Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
• Very silly considering the cybersecurity risks created by artificial intelligence.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 June 2026