How to Use innocuous in a Sentence

innocuous

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• He told a few innocuous jokes.
• But not all the fires were as innocuous as that of 1969.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 19 June 2019
• The blood in the van could have come from an injury as innocuous as a bloody nose, O’Connor said.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• And all this around an innocuous pair of Tabi-toed Mary-Janes.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• What may seem innocuous at the time could lead to larger problems down the road.
  — Marc Zalmanoff, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• The lies of the Democrats are not so innocent or innocuous.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
• Alarm bells should be ringing in your head at the innocuous tone.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• Many of the counts appear, on the surface, to be somewhat innocuous.
  — Christian Boone, ajc, 4 May 2021
• But the defense has tried to show it all as innocuous, or even wholesome.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Most of the tips that come in to his department are found to be innocuous, Koren said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 18 Aug. 2019
• The small trees, which look so innocuous, have in fact become a lifeline.
  — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
• The first post in the new Facebook group that was started on Wednesday was innocuous enough.
  — Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• The episode opens with a scene that appears pretty innocuous.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
• Looks like an innocuous piece of lifestyle brand spon-con, right?
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• Rich asked a rep to school the group on this seemingly innocuous baking spice.
  — Mike Dang, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2017
• Early in the second, the Panthers took the lead on a seemingly innocuous play.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• This sounds innocuous: no middle class family will pay more than 7% of pay for the cost of child care.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The most recent episode of Inside Amy Schumer was a fairly innocuous one.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• The reasons for the differences were innocuous, as well.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2022
• An innocuous header from Perisic found its way to Mandzukic, who this time didn't miss.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2018
• Of course, they can be used in fairly standard, innocuous ways.
  — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but not even summertime dips in the pool are innocuous anymore.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 July 2019
• Anything could set West off, sources say, and the reasons could be as innocuous as wearing the wrong color.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• The New York Times’ report on the matter offers only Alden’s point of view, which sounds innocuous enough at first blush.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2022
• In the end, though, it’s Gruen’s innocuous character that gives his career a charge and this book its charm.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
• In the third quarter, on an innocuous 3-yard, up-the-gut run by Mitchell, Williams fired into Quinn, the football equivalent of a quick jab.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2021
• The act of taking a prescription pill can seem innocuous.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• The most innocuous of attire, the basic yoga pant, has once again come under fire.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Likewise, while most are innocuous and even cute, sleeping positions can also raise red flags about your cat’s health.
  — Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• Most articles were innocuous, but some occasionally veered into sharp criticism of Democrats for funding aid to Ukraine instead of domestic priorities.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024