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Example sentences for "sillier"

Lexicographically close words:
silky; sill; sille; siller; sillie; sillies; silliest; sillily; silliness; sillon
  1. Neither he nor I could think of anything sillier than this, and since, when you are being silly, you have to get sillier and sillier, or else you are involved in anticlimaxes, he rolled over on to his face and became serious again.

  2. I cannot tell how to account for it, but these People have usually the Preference to our own Fools, in the Opinion of the sillier Part of Womankind.

  3. But such practices seem to us sillier and less promising even than direct Magic.

  4. His princess Micheline is a silly jilt before marriage and a sillier "door-mat" (as some women call others) of a wife.

  5. No; to him, Henry, the boy of the silly little cane and the sillier moustache, had stepped out of character.

  6. Is there anything sillier than a child brought up indoors under his mother's eye, who, in his ignorance of weight and resistance, tries to uproot a tall tree or pick up a rock.

  7. Can anything be sillier than the pains taken to teach them to walk, as if there were any one who was unable to walk when he grows up through his nurse's neglect?

  8. In both these Cases Men cannot, indeed, make a sillier Figure, than in repeating such Pleasures and Pains to the rest of the World; but I speak of them only, as they sit upon those who are involved in them.

  9. These Men are mighty loud Laughers, and held very pretty Gentlemen with the sillier and unbred Part of Womankind.

  10. A stranger, sillier talker I think I never heard.

  11. A sillier or a more contemptible notion--a notion more opposed to true philosophy and common sense,--can hardly be conceived.

  12. Mr. Lynch left off talking to Alice; the little blonde honourable looked sillier and sillier as his admiration grew upon him.

  13. It is sillier and emptier than the worst of the fairy plays of Clairville.

  14. It seems to me that people are sillier and flatter there than usual.

  15. Then I had to tell her the whole story, too; and every time I tell it it seems sillier and sillier to imagine that Ken meant anything serious.

  16. The lad grows sillier every day, it seems, and the 'boys' are making him worse by their nonsense.

  17. Yes, I had--to be sillier even than usual.

  18. Well, you understand now that there's no sillier person in London than dear Mrs. Bridgeman?


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sillier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.