How to Use puerile in a Sentence

puerile

adjective

• Yes, much of the laughs come from a puerile place, but there’s some genuine heart amid the gags.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Forcing a country to cater to the palate of a 70-year-old might seem puerile and self-absorbed.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 19 May 2017
• On first glance, his height suggests a puerile persona.
  — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• But there’s something puerile about seeing all these male nubbins.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• The puerile sense of humor gave way to more sophisticated jokes, ones that work for children and adults.
  — Gieson Cacho Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• So many movies nowadays are full of noise and mayhem and puerile effects, and Land, refreshingly, has none of that.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2021
• The official rationale for the House GOP plan is not, of course, to help the president realize a puerile dream.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 4 May 2018
• The future augurs less of a need for actors other than, despite Donald Trump’s puerile objections, the Meryl Streeps of the world.
  — The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
• Her job here is to eye-roll at the puerile antics and then to cue the audience’s warm, fuzzy feeling about these allegedly lovable lunkheads.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• The musical strips out all the grit, replacing it with puerile moral homilies.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The siblings’ exchanges are, as always, delightfully barbed and a bit puerile.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Pop music, pointless and puerile, was beneath his contempt.
  — Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• To make matters worse, the lyrics are astonishingly puerile.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• On October 9th, Trump sent a remarkably puerile letter to the Turkish leader, warning him not to go too far.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• Wednesday Addams would never want to be in a work that’s puerile and underdramatized.
  — Vulture, 7 June 2023
• But no public figure would go further than that, given the genre’s reputation for being puerile and pulpy.
  — Craig Fehrman, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• As a technician, Eminem hasn’t changed much over the years, but gone is his sense of whimsy, his puerile gift for social rebellion, his underdog thirst.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• On the contrary, Abraham undercuts his argument with such puerile rhetoric.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2013
• Silence that puerile soundtrack and enjoy the trademark handling and roadholding qualities Sir Alec would be proud of.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 6 May 2023
• The gaslighting, the puerile tweets, the divisiveness, the rampant ignorance and the utter inability to put the country before his fragile ego.
  — S.e. Cupp Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• The search engine on the firm’s website started offering customers puerile responses to their inquiries.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• This, amid another example of the puerile behavior that too many Flyers fans are too happy to exhibit.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• One pundit hired by Bannon was Milo Yiannopoulos, who specialized in puerile insults.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• Marvel’s sketches for the film were less puerile but wholly impressionistic, and so Carter began her customary deep dive.
  — Rob Haskell, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• All some people want during the dog days of summer is to sit agog before a mile-high screen, hypnotized by pyrotechnic special effects, puerile jokes, and perhaps the warm comfort of an aging movie star.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 14 July 2023
• The pop-punk that Joyce Manor inherited was often juvenile and sometimes puerile, self-loathing but rarely sympathetic.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2016
• Platter's line is thick and insistent but wasted on empty scrawls, unremarkable shapes and puerile phrases.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Director Daniel Goldhaber is of the generation whose naïve politics form the basis of puerile meta-storytelling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
• Much of this, of course, is childhood fabrication; puerile hero worship leaving an indelible mark on my memory.
  — Aram Mrjoian, Longreads, 15 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024