In a sentence
Six example sentences with banal, each labelled with its topic.
The sequel replaced every surprise with banal chase scenes we had already watched in a dozen better films.
Movies
Every pitch deck opened with the same banal slogan about changing the world, and investors stopped reading by slide two.
Startups
Critics called the mural banal: sunset, seagulls, and a lighthouse, arranged exactly as on ten thousand postcards.
Art
The lyrics are banal, rhyming moon with June in the first verse and heart with apart in the second.
Music
The novel's closing line is banal, telling us that life goes on as though no reader had ever heard it before.
Literature
The new office block is banal, a glass box with a lobby fountain that could stand in any city on earth.
Architecture
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Found in 11 published word listsRecognized
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- Magoosh GRE 1000
- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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