How to Use forgettable in a Sentence

forgettable

adjective
  • It was an extremely forgettable performance.
  • Here's a rundown of the best bites, the good bites, the forgettable bites and the bad bites.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The names looked great on the marquee, but a forgettable show has reached the end of its run.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The forgettable frame came on the heels of some sloppy play by the Guardians in the top half of the fourth, which helped the Red Sox go ahead, 2-1.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • Some of the score’s songs are forgettable, though, and the book feels repetitive in places.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • The rounds are as memorable as the golf back home is forgettable.
    The Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The teams have met just once on the football field — in SDSU’s most forgettable game over the past 16 seasons.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But, sometimes, the best of life happens in the ordinary, the forgettable.
    Susan Vollenweider, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Day 2 was forgettable as the Rams shot the second-highest team score of the day to finish sixth overall.
    Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
  • And the dynasty did leap back to life in 2022, after two forgettable seasons.
    Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The place is glassy and forgettable, with a few half-hearted pops of color, mostly red.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The focus is on the future because the past is pretty forgettable.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The few numbers that have been produced since are forgettable.
    Shalini Dore, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • There is a lot of plot, which in dance requires a lot of narrative mime; most of it, and its music, is forgettable.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Here are some of his greatest (and most forgettable) features.
    Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The performance was their most forgettable in a season that didn’t die until the last play of overtime in the final game.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • All this is forgivable, of course, just not as forgettable.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The movie proved to be a surprise hit and served as a career rebirth for Cage, who at the time had been on a run of forgettable low-budget action movies.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And, of course, there were the rookie mistakes, the reasons this year has been so forgettable even if brighter days are possibly ahead.
    Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Fund investors might have to concede that 2022 will be forgettable.
    William Power, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the performances skim the surface of the characters, the songs are mostly forgettable and the pacing feels choppy.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Holt’s final two seasons were forgettable, bouncing around from the Brewers to the Nationals to the Rangers.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Most are bland and forgettable, and a few are outright annoying.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Desserts are pretty but forgettable; drinks show flair and balance.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • His first season at the helm was forgettable, but year two was a noticeable pivot.
    Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The imperative of the streaming boom is to turn the content spigot to full blast, but that makes content seem forgettable and cheap.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Is Dwayne Johnson's new thing going to be starring in forgettable streaming films with red in the title?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For my part, the nightmares subsided after a few days, and my dreams are now as forgettable as before.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Grieve’s last full season in the majors, 1978, was mostly forgettable.
    Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Whether that says more about this movie or the other mostly forgettable installments, though, remains in the eye of the beholder.
    Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023

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