banal

Example Sentences

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Totalitarian abuses of power and the banal ascendancy of evil aren’t stopped with mere pity, she maintained, but with thoughtfulness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

There’s something covertly chilling about taking some relatively banal aspect of real life and pushing it to its most extreme lengths — and there’s also so much that could go wrong trying.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Golaszewski explains it's not intentional and he's showing that "the truth of grief is that it is banal".

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The short video posts on platforms like TikTok show how even just the words "Tokyo, Japan" with a cherry blossom emoji can make an otherwise banal street scene more appealing for some users.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

It lasted forever, like some weepy and endless made-for-TV movie—all the clinging, all the complaints, all the parking-lot confessions of “inadequacy” and “poor self-image,” all those banal sorrows.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt