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.
• One is a bit more banal, but the other one is quite mystical actually.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• Teens will more likely see smiling or goofy selfies, an endless string of heart emojis, or some funny or banal comment.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2017
• Instead, her manifesto is vague, and her public appearances have been banal.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• His tragedy now is no longer the threat of a career cut short, but the more banal one of a creative vision narrowed by the blinders of his own success.
  — Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
• Brown’s performance latches on to that nebulous horror of the banal, and turns it into high drama.
  — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Witt’s mostly get people off-balance by presenting banal fantasies.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
• In relatively peaceful times, this approach could seem banal, as if the films are arguing for pieties that everyone already agrees on.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• At moments like these, the quotidian comes perilously close to the flat, the interchangeable, the banal.
  — Garth Risk Hallberg, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• The most banal holodeck Virtual reality has so much potential.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 25 Aug. 2017
• The dialogue here is pointed, as the parents' banal statements barely hide their passive-aggressive efforts to control their daughter.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Aug. 2017
• Inside the banal, 14-story tower are all the hallmarks of a run-of-the-mill, old-economy compound: cubicles, mostly blank walls, and library-like silence.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
• The only element that mars The Shape of Water is its occasional descent into cartoonishly banal views of the evil of mankind.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 31 Aug. 2017
• Of this trippy generation of shows, The Leftovers staged the most convincing relationship between the real and the imagined, the banal and the bizarre.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
• 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
• No longer quite so normal, Rooney reaches for the banal and grasps tiny worlds.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• It’s in the more banal details of life after catastrophe that the film rings most true.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024