Example Sentences

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The details of Lydia’s indiscretions are left ambiguous, but the conclusions we can draw from them are almost banally matter-of-fact.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2022

However, these are the banally normal problems of a normal presidency.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

The studio has become a genre unto itself, one that banally flattens whatever other modes are absorbed into its spectacle.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2015

It can approach us banally, without our acknowledgement or notice.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2013

"I shall be delighted," I announced banally, "to do as you say."

From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk