How To Use Silly In A Sentence

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Du fwhat we cud, we cud not make some av th 'silly fules kape back clear av th' danger-zone -- wimmin an 'all, bedad! The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
They're so silly, and they tattle.
knocked silly by the impact

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he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
Perhaps if he hadn't looked so unwontedly silly, then he would have been able to keep it down, but instead he snorted.
We were all bored silly by the play.
She was not going to be fooled by their silly voices and accents.
Now you could dismiss this as "silly season" rumor-mongering, because Dougherty ran as a Democrat and Brewer is a Republican. Francine Hardaway: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Too Sick to Complete a Second Term?
It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
Hollywood, which once made her look hip and powerful, now makes her look craven and silly - and like a dumbo for not getting that it's so over with.
I don't deserve this and I am too mature to play silly emotional games.
No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake.
Rather than being victim to this silly debate, we should move forward and embrace this interesting and fun addition to sex.
I don't believe in all these silly diets.
An infuriatingly gooey-wooey silly-billy lovey-wovey couple. Times, Sunday Times
As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
My best friend tells me that I am silly to be upset about this.
Stop messing around, you silly twit!
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
And yet parents press children to be truthful, admonishing against wild stories and silly lies.
I'll soon put an end to her silly little games.
Removed from the artificial atmosphere of the fashion show, high-fashion clothes often look cheap and silly.
She lavishes attention on those silly little dogs.
The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
Italian turned out to be silly, while the Welshman recalled the gloomier imaginings of the BRONTËS, and in the event came by an appropriately violent end. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916
He was instead maundering about his room, thinking about silly things and wishing he knew what was going on.
Get Smart does have a sequel in 2011 so Get Smart can easilly surpass Paul Blart: Mall Cop. cartman on Mar 30, 2009 Worth Watching - June 9: Final Get Smart Trailer! « FirstShowing.net
I found no joy in cleaning up some little tyrant's mess and I didn't have enough emotion in me to cry over a silly dog-eared card.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Once again we appeal to these unsavoury people to please stop this silly nonsense.
Yes, it is all a bit familiar - but, sadly, nowhere near as delightfully absurd and unrepentantly silly as the Ghostbusters movies.
The ones who appear every so often with their green wellies and silly hats and think they're real country folk. TICKLED PINK
(Soundbite of laughter) Ms. POUNDSTONE: I don't know, you know, I have a silly peccadillo which is that I call body parts by their names. Panel Round Two
They called it silly to do so.
Prayer and worship and singing hymns - all silly and useless.
Silly and partial encroacher! not to know to what to attribute the reserve I am forced to treat him with! Clarissa Harlowe
Derek Underwood bowls the last ball of the day to Bernard Julien who plays defensively to Tony Greig at silly point.
I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
Sport is not about silly votes and the opinions of silly people. Times, Sunday Times
Review: Light-hearted (skillfully borderline silly) and inventive story with strong characters and good back story about Kaz's bleb paranoia since the death of his parents at the "hands" of a bleb (a set of steak knives attached to a coat rack). REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois
Isabelle arrives accompanied by her silly and pretentious mother and Romainville, a middle-aged roué and friend.
I've been trying to find a clear plastic mac without a silly price tag. Times, Sunday Times
As most folks know by now, this same issue underlies the great, unresolvable, and basically silly debate about whether the new millennium starts at the beginning of 2000 or of 2001.
The urge to throw on something pretty and sparkly and silly? Times, Sunday Times
We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July.
The gasbags were going on and on about how silly it was for him to get angry about a purported message in their new puppet movie in which they tell young people not to vote.
Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.
One government aide said: 'She is feeling very silly today. Times, Sunday Times
Don't dignify his silly scratchings by calling it scholarship.
We have to adapt to their right-handed implements and look silly trying to use them.
So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that? Fear is the Key
I was warned before I left not to do anything silly, like becoming an illegal immigrant, a runaway.
This silly thing that we are macho and we play football is very old hat. Times, Sunday Times
Haha, you silly twit, he won with 55 percent of the vote against Stefan's hero Toby Nixon, in a district that Nixon had carried twice before, a district that once elected Kathy Lambert and the never-to-be-forgotten Bill (Spanky) Backlund. Sound Politics: Urban Legends And Eric Oemig
How silly of me to expect them to help!
How could the silly chit have so mistaken his intent?
Enid: I would just give them a big hug and tell them not to be silly.
Her stunt may be incredibly silly, but it clearly works. The Sun
Sport imbues the ephemeral and the silly and the transitory with great gravity, and it's a kind of consolation in a world that buckles beneath meaning and import and significance.
Oh, I'm so lame, but that's the truth, silly or not.
The silly bitch went and told the police.
Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about.
Enid: I would just give them a big hug and tell them not to be silly.
Even a staunch admirer of Turner, the redoubtable art critic Brian Sewell wrote at the time the Tate was mounting its campaign to save The Blue Rigi painting from being sold abroad: This is just bloody silly. A legacy Turner would have approved of | Charles Saatchi
Cricket, with its googlies, boseys, chinamen, silly legs, byes, sundries - the whole argot - was incomprehensible without deep explanation.
The dance was silly, unplanned, and cut short when both simultaneously slipped on patches of wet grass.
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indeed, it was aberrant of him to accept the job and downright silly of the government to appoint him.
Repetitively hollerin '' ganja 'at the crowd and asking them to respond in kind just seemed silly and by the volume of the response, one would think the crowd thought the same - wrong call Mr B. Virtual Festivals
Mailer fetishizes bravery, which has sometimes made him seem silly.
A science-guy, described by colleagues as ‘a silly boob,’ confused the tub containing the live rats with the one containing the dead rats.
I asked quite silly and half asleep what he was doing home again when he sort of mouped that it was all closed and no one was there.
He was sometimes rather excitable and sometimes very silly. Times, Sunday Times
She'll get it dirty, get it trodden on, silly, dilly girl.
We have a very silly situation whereby Queenstown and Taupo are able to open for business and we are not.
I cannot understand how I let silly things bother me before, like a flabby stomach.
Ranking schools numerically is silly (is MIT four ranking spots better than CalTech, or five?) but placing schools in quality tiers would do a large amount of good without too much of the ankle-biting and ratings-grubbing that comes with the numerical ranking system. Matthew Yglesias » Demand-Side Solutions
From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
I'm almost an Alpha Male in that respect - not wanting to show my neediness or vulnerability - but I'm learning it's completely silly to be that way.
Carvel, "within their limits, are works of art;" The Inside of the Cup "is no more than a compendium of paralogy, as silly and smattering as a speech by William Jennings Bryan or a shocker by Jane Addams. A Book of Prefaces
But again due to silly mistakes and the poorest scrummaging I've ever seen from Wales, France got the better of them.
Call me silly, but I just don't care whether or not a candidate lugs a spouse along while he or she is stumping for votes.
Then he batted it to and fro, chasing it up one aisle and down another and slapping it silly.
I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.
They served us coffee in these silly little cups.
You are just another silly cow with an opinion on everything
This made him look silly, because the whole shtick belongs to a different generation.
Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Inside Higher Ed
A parent might even reply that the child is being silly, stupid, or overreacting for what they are thinking and feeling.
The silly prank could have all gone horribly wrong. The Sun
I thought it was a damn silly place to park if some one wanted to take a leak in the bushes.
It may seem silly, but absent an instruction sheet, how was he to know?
It's juvenile and plain silly, and I don't like it contextually as a roleplayer.
But it does balance that worry that it's all a bit silly and childish. Times, Sunday Times
A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term? Times, Sunday Times
While I may be sensible enough to spend my free time sitting in poncy cinema cafés drinking coffee, a very silly friend of mine is running the London Marathon this weekend.
T 'ould gray drayed off directly, and he's gane tull t' loike bricks -- but t 'bay's no but sillyish -- he keeps a breaking oot again for iver -- and sae Ay'se give him a hot maash enow! Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
O Rupert, my silly little juggins, you're as dense as a vegetable marrow. Tell England A Study in a Generation
On his next tour he bought a silly hat. Times, Sunday Times
And since she answered my silly questions with patience and saccharine sweetness, she is in my good books.
We gave him some stick for wearing that silly hat.
She's a silly bint for being so confrontational and not being able to back it up though.
Besides, we're heading off for Mexico before long, and it'd be silly to travel all that way with an incomplete kit.
It is just that I can no longer tolerate the time-wasting and silly game-playing that characterise local government.
You can use a word or silly sentence to help you memorize which notes belong on the lines or spaces of a clef.
We're conceding silly goals and in a relegation dogfight. The Sun
I've invented silly voices and character traits for all of them. The Sun
It is silly nonsense, but it is fun silly nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
He does well connecting with a scene, but often comes across as melodramatic and hokey in this silly musical.
Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games? Words of wisdom
Feeling uncomfortable about technologies that promise to make us more attractive seems a little silly, but I am mistrustful of the version of the good life that seems to be proposed by plastic surgery.
Then we let in a silly goal after a quick counter-attack and we're done. The Sun
The cartoons inject humour, while the writing is crystal-clear and direct - it never relies on silly jokes and is never patronising.
It was silly of Grace to take offence at our innocent remarks.
But as the Times reports today, the silly chumps now realise this might not have been too clever.
That said, I do think that the other side is silly too – these forms of ceremonial deism are meaningless (and indeed, devalue Christianity by making it into a rote incantation, which is fine with me). The Volokh Conspiracy » “What Sort of Burden Does It Place on the University … to Strike ‘of Our Lord’ from the Diploma?”
I had assumed that everyone (and Jessica in particular) would understand my comment as a silly joke.
Pericles is without doubt a very silly play, probably Shakespeare's silliest (and the silly bits are shared evenly between the bits he wrote and the bits by brothel-keeper and part-time playwright George Wilkins). Susan Boyle
Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
You should trash those silly ideas as soon as possible.
They were three points clear with time ebbing away when they began to panic and concede silly frees.
Reply pretty funny me and my friends used to do almost the same thing we would stand in one spot shott a couple seconds then turn off the camera and bring some silly prop or someone else or somehting stupid inside the next shot kinda stupid but funny if you do it right EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Incredible Card Tricks
No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it -- though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
‘The silly thing is they have cut the crown of the trees so they won't grow tall but will bush out,’ Mr Kenzler said.
Do you suppose there’s anyone else in the world who’s such a silly-billy, with such feverish little knuckles, so afraid of waking me up and of not making me understand? Within a Budding Grove
On the contrary, I was constantly hearing tales of silly fooleries, of overbearing behaviour, of deliberate rudeness, such as irresistibly recalled, in spirit if not in form, the conduct of the common barrator in the guise of a king, who, if The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War
A rich tan is unmistakably the hottest summer trend, yet we all know the dangers of toasting ourselves silly to get that sun-drenched look.
If the pollsters are overestimating Labour's support once more, the consequences of their blunders could leave a lot of leftish voters looking very silly.
Or Jonathon, if anyone has an idea for a missing scene outtake of the cracky or silly variety. Ugh
For the fans, it was a last outing for the tricolours, silly hats, squeaky hammers and giant inflatable hands that have adorned them and their homes for the past three weeks.
But it was just silly to have such similar situations — of course some worked in sawmills, and some were part-time farmers and mill workers, and I've forgotten what the third was (there were three main industries) — and it would have looked just too botchy, you know, too sparse each one, too sparse or repetitious. Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
When he is not holding forth on the finer points of politics or theatre, he is prone to flights of huge, silly fancy. Times, Sunday Times
I've put up with all the worry while you and Martin were playing your silly games. KICK BACK
You will not see any old rubbish selling at silly money. Times, Sunday Times
I feel this need to show people we can do it on our own but I recognize how silly and destructive and completely juvenile this attitude is.
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
This is not as silly a question as it sounds. Times, Sunday Times
If Turkish leaders thought the mere idea of joining the EU was “silly”, why did they make so many concessions in their national laws to the acquis communautaire? Matthew Yglesias » A Special Relationship
It is not silly to suggest that we should consider those aspects.
He was sometimes rather excitable and sometimes very silly. Times, Sunday Times
They were obviously too busy to deal with their numerous, silly questions.
And while the occasional privacy violation seems trivial, perhaps even silly to some readers, these abuses really do add up over time.
September 18th, 2009 at 4: 41 pm neddy: What you're demanding from Behe sounds silly. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Anonymous said ... this is silly of me, but the other thing i remember is that grandma served beef & noodles over home-made mashed potatoes for grandpa. she did not for laura usually. and she would never have put wine in her beef & noodles! love, mom Grandma's Beef & Noodles
What silly mariner in my ship hath not bought or begged mithridate or a pinch of achimenius wherewith to make good his voyage? Sir Mortimer
It was a silly thing for him to do but he only pushes him in the chest. The Sun
I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
Others report that some online fitness regimes are just plain silly. Times, Sunday Times
The article also mentions that the research involved in ectogenesis may not be completed in the US due to our exceedingly silly restrictions on stem cell and IVF laws.
I screamed myself silly on the roller coaster.
Why, it seems your packet-boat is not lost: psha, how silly that is, when I had already gone through the forms, and said it was a sad thing, and that I was sorry for it! The Journal to Stella
This explains why the pro-hunt protesters were subdued not by policemen, but by a group of men in frock coats who looked like they belonged to John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks.
You should hear how men howl at this finding: What a trivial excuse, how silly.
It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon.
The claim to imminent demise is silly on elementary logical grounds. Christianity Today
We can also potentially eliminate the risks that come with silly fabric-looking costumes, and clunkier, leather-based costume alternatives. GREEN LANTERN’s Suit Goes Digital « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
It further undermines the credibility of this silly policy. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, all I knew about Celtic folklore consisted of one silly story about a leprechaun.
Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face? a beautiful body?
He said: 'It sounds silly but if you are going to lose then at least score goals. The Sun
He paled below his silly, belled jester's hat.
His companion chuckled, `I'm not here about the pension, silly...' His fastidious tone made Arthur feel grubby. BEHINDLINGS
Now I've enjoyed the crystal dresses and the holographic goggles, the gratuitous body painting and the unsettling way you share your crotch with the audience but visible corrective undergarments is where I have to shut this space shuttle to the cockeye-ded fool down, silly! FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I left my keys at home, which was a pretty silly thing to do .
You'll drive me to distraction with your silly questions!
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
I was able to talk - this might sound silly to you - talk to adult men and women face to face.
The ingenuity with which this great organ raises the cloyless topic every silly season under another name, is beyond all praise. Without Prejudice
She thought everything was cheap and silly-looking, not authentically Chinese.
In personal disagreements, for instance -- they never "squabbled" -- the final insult was to say, "My dear, you're as silly as a something-or - other Radical Govunment," for there was no answer to this anywhere in the world. The Extra Day
So yeah, I had to work out but, you know, it's such a ridiculous character, the guy's so silly that I don't think it would have mattered if he'd got a pot belly.
We gave away a silly goal.
But, when treating of a grave subject, what can be more silly or indecorous than such language as the following -- "Ye are raised on high by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, and ye are drawn by the rope, which is the Holy Ghost, and your pulley is your faith. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
I think that the only reason that the hunters take part in the hunt is just so that they can dress up in silly coats.
E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, the novelist Naomi Mitchison (a "silly sympathiser"), and J.B. Priestley all pursued very successful careers without, so far as we know, any hindrance from the British government. Orwell's List
But in the long term, it is a silly and counter-productive policy. Times, Sunday Times
They take up residence at the Pavilion Theatre for the annual pantomime of silly jokes and bad wigs in an all new, up-to-date production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
“True, she is no longer young, and even rather elderly, as well as by no means good-looking; but as for loving a mere featherhead, a mere beauty — well, I never could understand that, for it is such a silly thing to do.” Youth
If you have puppets or stuffed animals, make a little play and use very, very silly voices.
The affairs had continued over the years - one silly tart after another.
Soon, when borrowing a book, you'll be able to specify how sexy or sad or silly or sentimental you'd like it to be.
Everybody knows that sport should be about parochial self-interest rather than silly old excellence. Times, Sunday Times
The guiltiest pleasure of the year, with two silly men contriving a night out from nothing. Times, Sunday Times
Now it seemed she needed more time to set her bearings each morning, to remember the feeling of soaring, even if it came vicariously from a silly pair of geese. 2008 May « Becca’s Byline
Various folks are making runs through a fabulator for silly resolutions, and a few are adding serious ones. And the gray abideth forever
Hopefully marvel does have a problem with this (hopefully it doesnt turn out to be something silly like an actual iron fist (tho i beleive it could work)) instead of ripping off a name why not just do a movie based on the actual character its still cool seems like a waste is all not to Eli Roth and RZA Teaming for The Man with the Iron Fist « FirstShowing.net
How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news?
This silly hilarious coat hanger is simple and a little naughty, so Mr P entertains our office desks and accessorizes our homes in a unique, fun and memorable way! Arrow Coat Hook
I thought all the rest of it was silly but a lot of my horsy friends spent good money to take courses in this procedure and get licensed to teach it to others.

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