How to Use boilerplate in a Sentence

boilerplate

noun

• The movie is tense from the start, aided by the fact that the plot is far from boilerplate.
  — Alec Dent, National Review, 28 June 2019
• Kevin McCarthy stood at the head of the table to give his boilerplate toast.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
• Because the artists used grids to plan these boilerplate wall scenes, even the proportions are the same.
  — Bob Brier, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• If that’s more than diplomatic boilerplate, the U.S. will abide by its treaty and tell Gov. Whitmer to stand down.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2021
• So we’re spared the sort of meddlesome-U.S.-government boilerplate plot that weighed down a movie like Arrival.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2022
• The first three-quarters of the speech was good but essentially Hall of Fame boilerplate.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Next to the depth of Lacey’s struggle, or Dee Dee’s awakening, the others seem more like boilerplate.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• The AGs want to know: Were those terms of service clear and understandable, or buried in boilerplate where few users would even read them?
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2018
• That will pose problems for the many sites and service providers that threw up a boilerplate cookie consent box to comply with GDPR.
  — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
• Both contained much of the same boilerplate language, right down to the ballet/ballot typo.
  — Rob Kuznia, Bob Ortega and Casey Tolan, CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
• Given a chance to comment on dozens of assertions, the team took more than a day and then issued a boilerplate statement.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• That just makes coding a lot faster, where a lot of boilerplate code is being done by the AI, saving humans for human tasks.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• The early back-and-forth from Nevada, home to one of the toughest Senate contests of the year, offered little more than the usual boilerplate.
  — Eric Bradner, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Maybe the most important part of Biden’s speech were a few lines that might sound like foreign policy boilerplate.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• The movie’s fight scenes are boilerplate, with no sense of the heroines’ vulnerabilities, no sense of what can be escaped from and what can’t.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• And these are from form leases, with boilerplate language that is available on the internet.
  — Curbed, 25 Aug. 2022
• There were a lot of boilerplate answers that came out of the annual coaches breakfast, as usual.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Screenshots show the employee replied with the same boilerplate language.
  — Brian Edwards, ProPublica, 17 May 2021
• In New York, Prince’s book contract was deviating far from the boilerplate.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Also be careful of that boilerplate, standard, $10 or so many trusts list on schedule A.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• The truth of the North Korea missile crisis is not the boilerplate assumption that China is the key to the solution, but rather that China is by design the root of the problem.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
• My advice would be to go up there for 15 minutes and give the blandest, most boilerplate answers imaginable.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• That, in fact, is why mediocre men such as Richard Spencer, who cannot even get through a speech of boilerplate racist slogans without reading from his notes, briefly soared to prominence.
  — Jonathon Van Maren, National Review, 1 Nov. 2020
• Indeed, as early as 1933, the famed movie house appeared in other media as a boilerplate for how a premiere should, and often does, look like.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 18 May 2022
• After Game 6, he was asked a fairly boilerplate question about going home for Game 7.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• The Lawyer often cannot resist the urge to take a red pen to the contract’s boilerplate language, regardless of whether their specialty is contract law.
  — Joan Herlong, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Temperatures cold enough to lay down ten inches of boilerplate on a lake surface will quickly take their toll.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• With Latifah and Bridges at the wheel much of this could have been played for laughs, upending a boilerplate scenario in a clever, Jordan Peele kind of way while mocking all the southern bigotry.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• This makes nice academic boilerplate, but the real world, filled with real people, is a little more complex than that.
  — WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• The staff was already writing up a boilerplate arrest affidavit, which would be signed by the lead detective working that day, Manuel Chavez.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024