How to Use banal in a Sentence

banal

adjective

• The writing was banal but the story was good.
• He made some banal remarks about the weather.
• But for many traits the exceptional few matter much more than the banal and pedestrian many.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2012
• The streets of heaped districts, where evil became banal and mercy perished, now is home to ‘devils’ and ‘demons’.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
• There’s a certain snobbism in the fashion world that positive, up, sunny things are banal.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2015
• That is a notion at once banal and perennially useful to recall.
  — Roger Cohen, The Atlantic, 29 July 2014
• The main culprits are more obvious and banal: one-party rule and state control of the economy.
  — James Leung, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
• The little green guru was supposed to be profound and insightful but what emerged from his backwards speech struck me as banal.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2014
• When the movie opens, everything seems ordinary, banal: There’s a woman in bed and a man fussing elsewhere in the room.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• What was once reserved for the best, the most awe-inspiring and the wondrous is now routinely deployed for the mundane, the banal and the taste of fro-yo.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2016
• Other aspects of the production are concrete and familiar, even banal.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2016
• Typically enough, the narrative is banal and specific at once.
  — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2016
• For the lower 3-D level of fossils, the explanation of cause of death is much more banal: burrow collapse.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
• All Lives Matter,’ for example, sounds obvious, even banal.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 26 May 2016
• It’s said to capture one person’s impressions of the quotidian, the banal, the everyday.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2016
• But while that first blast is jarring, later moments of violence on the EP are deliberately banal.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2016
• The strain of slop on Medium tends toward the banal, especially compared with the dadaist flotsam clogging Facebook.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
• The most banal words, but there are never the right words.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• The words Eliza sings are banal, but the sound behind them is the force of destiny.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• Even the banal chitchat that opens the show mesmerizes.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• The truth of the love triangle was both more banal and more strange.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• And that’s just one side of the building, running along a banal strip of the boulevard.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Just because evil is banal doesn’t mean a movie has to be.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• And that fact alone brings a new meaning—and a new weight—to even the most banal of our pleasantries.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• But contrary to the banal refrain, all press isn’t good press.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• The stakes and the spectacles are as grand as the evil is chillingly banal.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• And yet, the facts on the ground in the real-life cases were so chillingly banal.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• After all, aren’t most of us trapped in the same day over and over again, trying to find meaning in the banal?
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017
• We’ve all gotten mired in banal small talk at some point.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 23 May 2017
• So as with a lot of things in Hollywood, the line between glamor and the banal is very thin.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024