In a sentence
Six example sentences with trite, each labelled with its topic.
Every graduation speech ends with the same trite image of a door opening onto an unwritten page.
Literature
The chorus rhymes fire with desire, a pairing so trite that reviewers stopped mentioning it years ago.
Music
A trite montage of the couple painting a kitchen tells the audience nothing it had not guessed already.
Movies
The mission statement was trite, promising to delight customers and empower teams in words every rival had used already.
Business
The candidate's speech leaned on trite phrases about hard-working families, and the hall applauded from habit rather than feeling.
Politics
The pitch deck opened with the trite line about changing the world, and two investors reached for their phones.
Startups
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