How to Use drivel in a Sentence

drivel

noun

• Jimmy Quinn has a post on the latest drivel to come out of the White House.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Nov. 2022
• In fact, this year opened with its share of sexist drivel.
  — refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
• An excellent point, in the face of a bunch of classless drivel.
  — Heidi Stevens, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• All of this culture war drivel, of course, cuts against Neil’s supposed vision for the network.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
• They aren’t asked to try to mine comedy from being too old to dance at a wedding or some such drivel.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• To many observers, such a diet of drivel would be a recipe for despair — or at least jadedness.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Alas, the discussion confirms that this kind of drivel has gained real traction of late.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
• Boil down all the sanctimonious drivel about how edifying the games are, and you’re left with the unavoidable truth: The Olympics wreck lives.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
• Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• Such drivel has been widespread, from the fringes of the right-wing internet to mainstream conservative organs.
  — Graham Vyse, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• Sadly, that sort of circular drivel is what passes for deep thinking on race today.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• The Spectrum viewers are being punished enough without having to listen to this drivel.
  — latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• More money, more pressure, more problems, more ambitions, more New Age drivel.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• The ambulances in America will always be full because men with guns who spend too much time reading drivel on the Internet will never stop killing us.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• This is drivel based on an erroneous understanding of how the atmosphere gets its oxygen.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• Who knows how many might have spouted Marxist dogma or QAnon conspiracy drivel?
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Its most powerful motif is the spread, a debate technique that calls for blasting your opponent with a drivel of information.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• The rumour mill has been filled with intriguing news stories, worrying tales of player exits and some absolute drivel.
  — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Alt-right drivel isn’t a threat to the constitutional experiment.
  — David French, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• Unfortunately, this was not the first instance of Mendoza promoting such drivel.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 26 Aug. 2020
• This can easily devolve into so much corporate drivel scattered on office walls that hold no real meaning for anyone.
  — Yec, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• So when the latest would-be Einstein announces yet another theory, my eyes start to glaze over in anticipation of drivel and disappointment.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• Netflix is continuing to pump out forgettable reality show drivel that will do nothing to fix its problems.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
• But Allen, for all of his directorial brilliance, is no Williams or O'Neill, and rather than coming off as eloquent or intelligent, the exchanges between his characters read like pretentious drivel.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The prosecutor assigned to the case patiently listened to these allegations, an overflowing binder of evidence on her desk belying their drivel.
  — Sarah Wang, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2021
• Leave it to folks in the education field to convert a simple calculation into meaninglessness drivel and to explain it in a deliberately obtuse way.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The Courier Mail's headline is a disappointingly perfect example of that kind of attention-seeking drivel; this study didn't even begin to examine whether any of the toxins had anti-cancer properties.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2015
• From start to finish, Giessel's commentary that appeared Jan. 9 was incoherent, rambling drivel.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
• DeSantis rightly knocked it down as condescending drivel.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
• My post on Martin's work was prompted by the ruminations of one Saladin Ahmed, whose piece in Salon manifested all the stale standard post-colonial inflected drivel which riddles much of popular literary criticism.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2012

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