How to Use silly season in a Sentence

silly season

noun

• All part of the equation in the NFL Draft silly season.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• There is almost no way for this year’s silly season to match the madness of last year.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2018
• The podcast won't stay weekly through the silly season.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
• The arrival of the NBA playoffs, of course, means it’s almost silly season in the league ... and fans will soon be tantalized with trade rumors and free agent dreams.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
• The silly season is that part of the year when coaching rumors are flying around like Santa’s reindeer.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 6 Dec. 2019
• Despite that silly season smoke there does not seem to be a fire inside the Smoothie King Center locker room.
  — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond this weekend.
  — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 16 Sep. 2017
• Coaching searches are the silly season of sports reporting.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• But this is a warning that these guys aren’t going to help much during the NFL silly season, of which looming free agency and planning for the draft are primary components.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2020
• With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond Sonoma.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2017
• After the way every possible permutation of this topic has been bandied about for the past month — such is the NBA silly season — the answers should not surprise anyone.
  — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, 20 July 2019
• But with it, comes the actualisation of this silly season.
  — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• After that, the silly season begins, with every politician focusing on the midterm elections.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• Other times, the silly season makes perfect sense, and that can be especially maddening for fan bases (and athletic directors) with a coach whose name pops up in the rumor mill.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
• Season 6 arrives, after the slow and often silly season 5, with the characters being moved to a maximum-security prison after that whole riot thing.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2018
• That was before the prolonged silly season of rumors, potential trades, and speculation misdirected us from such a logical choice.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• In a showdown truly worthy of August’s silly season, Trump’s very briefly tenured communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, and the president and his allies have been involved in a fierce insult-fest.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• This is not so much a breakthrough as a slight crack in the paintwork, but at the height of silly season this is exactly the kind of seemingly insignificant (and probably, actually, insignificant) development that provokes widespread hysteria.
  — SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018

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