PLATITUDE in a Sentence

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1. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself.
2. We shall have to listen to more platitudes about the dangers of overspending.
3. Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
4. If you think that I am going to return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken.
5. The vacuous remarks of the politician annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLATITUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
platitude
 n.  dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
Classic Sentence:
1  You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
3  If you think that I am going to return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Example Sentence:
1  In giving advice to his son, old Polonius expressed himself only in same platitude; every word out of his mouth was a commonplace.
2  The vacuous remarks of the politician annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes.
3  At the other end are tomes containing a plethora of platitudes about breaking the mould and worshipping the kill.
4  We shall have to listen to more platitudes about the dangers of overspending.