How do you use Silly in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like airheaded, plus the exact meaning.

Less frequent word

Silly in a sentence

Silly | Sil | Siler | Sils

Silly meaning

  1. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
  2. Absurdly large.

Synonyms of Silly

cockamamie light-headed giddy featherbrained empty-headed dizzy airheaded foolish zany whacky wacky sappy goofy cockamamy lightheaded

Silly in Dutch

ondoordacht dom ondeugend gek stom

Example sentences (20)

First, though, we might want to dispense with the dross of the more stereotyped and silly single line expressions.

God (Bowen Yang) narrates this profoundly ridiculous musical that is as silly and stupendous as its name suggests.

It seems almost silly to ask you, but what do you honestly think made the Handy Foundation application stand out?

Away with political parties, cronies and incompetent politicians and the silly games they play with our lives.

Let’s acknowledge that, and stop thinking of women writing from the heart as something that’s silly and small.

Directed by Marc Forster, this is a relentlessly ambitious zombie movie, with all the silly juice drained out of the can.

Good with other dogs, children This boy is Drillbit, a wonderfully silly pittie mix puppy who is just about 12 weeks old.

In the second picture, Demi kept the same backdrop and mirror angle but opted to share a silly duck pout with the camera.

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I remember Sarah, even the way she played it she was like how do I make this super silly sentimental moment somewhat real?

Keeler: Broncos need to stand pat at NFL trade deadline with Pat Surtain II, defense that made Patrick Mahomes look silly.

It’s easy to be distracted by all the silly stories of dumb lawyers trying to use ChatGPT like Lexis/Nexis.

Now it's only on certain parts of the road and if you park in the wrong area you get a ticket, which I think is just silly.

His family will fondly remember him by his contagious sense of humor and his ability to assign each of them silly nicknames.

It got to be up around three in the morning and everybody gets a little giddy and silly when you start running low on sleep.

I feel Prodigy is a gorgeous show, and that's something silly but I'm just super excited about what the thumbnails look like.

A BBC Strictly Come Dancing star has said "don't be silly" and clapped back at speculation he and his pro could have a romance.

One can clearly see Kathooria’s imprint in the dialogues and silly situations that make for some mindless, pleasurable viewing.

Getting a bargain tree just in time for the silly season is great, but then you need to look after it.

It all may sound silly, but this really isn’t far from the kind of stuff to which Trump subjected America between 2017 and 2021.

Each time I slightly wince inside as it triggers a childhood memory of sniggers, silly rhymes and a subtle feeling of inferiority.

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Common combinations with silly

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • silly and 26×
  • and silly 17×
  • the silly 15×
  • of silly 10×
  • as silly
  • that silly
  • silly for
  • silly but
  • be silly
  • silly it

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "silly" in a sentence?
An example: "First, though, we might want to dispense with the dross of the more stereotyped and silly single line expressions." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "silly" from real English texts.
What does "silly" mean?
Silly means: Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
What are synonyms of "silly"?
Common synonyms of "silly" include: cockamamie, light-headed, giddy, featherbrained, empty-headed, dizzy, airheaded, foolish. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "silly" in Dutch?
"silly" translates to Dutch as: ondoordacht, dom, ondeugend, gek, stom.
How many example sentences with "silly" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "silly", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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