SILLY in a Sentence

Learn SILLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
122 example sentences for SILLY, such as:
1. Don't stuff him with silly ideas.
2. It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
3. It was such a silly situation, after all.
4. She torments everyone with silly questions.
5. Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SILLY
silly
 a.  dazed from or as if from repeated blows
 a.  ludicrous, foolish
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  That silly nephew of hers, Charlie Hamilton, and Honey Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She only saw a boy of twenty, red as a beet and looking very silly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She wished that she could tell him how silly he looked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  What a silly thing to say to a man, thought Scarlett, ready to giggle with relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She saw Honey's awkward wigglings and heard her silly titters as she hung onto boys' arms, and the thought stung her to new rage, rage at herself, at Ashley, at the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Honey was a fool, a silly, a simpleton about men, but she had a feminine instinct about other women that Scarlett had underestimated.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Uncle Henry liked Scarlett immediately because, he said, he could see that for all her silly affectations she had a few grains of sense.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men were almost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States' Rights.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  It was such a silly situation, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  She isn't like these other silly little fools who believe everything their mammas tell them and act on it, no matter how they feel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  "Don't be silly," said Scarlett shortly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  You think her silly and stupid and her patriotic notions bore you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  "Don't be silly, I won't look at you," said Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  How silly of Melanie to be bothering about modesty at a time like this, Scarlett thought irritably.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Now, Miss Scarlett, don't say they are silly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon.
2  Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
3  It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
4  Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
5  It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
6  I suppose I did do OK, but I'd be silly to get a big head about it.
7  He doesn't say those silly things that unthinking people say.
8  Don't stuff him with silly ideas.
9  Love makes you stupid : whispers of love is a bunch of stupid, a love letter is silly talk, valentine is a little fool.
10  It is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon.
11  She torments everyone with silly questions.
12  "Pooh! you can't be silly enough to wish to leave such a splendid place?"