How to Use inane in a Sentence

inane

adjective
Definition of inanenext
Synonyms for inanenext
  • The film's plot is inane and full of clichés.
  • I quickly tired of their inane comments.
  • But it’s the sort of inane piece of ephemera that can thrive in this madcap NFT world.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
  • From the inane ploys to try and trick you — an Obamacare offer!
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 July 2022
  • Jackie waits for his response, some inane joke, some way to break the tension of the moment.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • How could something so inane have informed so much of my life?
    — Mira Jacob, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2022
  • To create a furor over the innocent use of pronouns is inane.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This is so inane coming from someone of Weld’s stature as to be mind-boggling.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019
  • To turn Floyd into a hero of a racialized morality play is inane.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 May 2021
  • Yet its path to the mechanic is being blocked by an inane Supreme Court ruling.
    — Adam Mossoff, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
  • There will be an uproar if the government moves forward with this inane idea to ban gas stoves.
    — WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Any art about right now has to reckon with the inane malaise of two years spent remembering to pack your kids’ school masks.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Asking for more elections is just as inane as asking for more leap years.
    — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Daniels resists the urge to roll his eyes at the meandering and inane line of questioning.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • The root cause was inane, but the display of devoted camaraderie of the Lunchpail AC was a sight to behold.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • So, where to begin, apart from saying that the entire plan, from basement to penthouse, is inane?
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The plot itself is pretty inane, stupidly funny and clever.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Can’t the truck figure out that the output and input rates are ramping up in lockstep to sniff out this inane behavior?
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 2 June 2022
  • And then the questions were so inane that the anxiety was quickly replaced by boredom and defeat.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 May 2022
  • That gave us an inane skit in a toilet stall but cut off articulate and moving speeches that gave a hint of the struggle amid the joy of the spotlight.
    — latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • Already, much of the art world has decried NFTs as inherently worthless and inane.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Miranda leaves the table with a flourish, performing an inane monologue from one of Arthur’s films and tipping over a glass of wine.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • And an urge to support all who are imprisoned—especially those on inane charges like less than a gram of cannabis oil—ought to be maintained.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • No wonder supporters of Trump’s inane Iran speech are those bastions of democracy in the Persian Gulf.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2017
  • These seemingly inane questions suffocated us and made the reality of our task feel like a knife in the heart.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • The scenes with scientists navigating the inane chit-chat of a morning talk show are more plentiful than the six-minute Wake Up and Smile sketch, and have far fewer laughs.
    — Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The dialogue that accompanies this act is just as inane, and not worth repeating here.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In sports, female athletes are often asked the type of inane, patronizing questions that would never be posed to men.
    — Diana Bruk, Cosmopolitan, 5 Nov. 2015
  • Before that, there were the kerfuffles over long hair and bell-bottoms, Elvis' pelvis, and countless other inane issues that seem silly now.
    — Brenda Looper, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2021
  • Remember how devoted certain kids used to be to Barney, the inane purple dinosaur with his own TV show?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2017

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