Sentence examples for a harmless one from inspiring English sources

It was a reminder -- though a harmless one -- of an incident on the campaign trail in early September, when Mr. Bush, standing near a microphone that he did not realize was live, uttered a vulgarity about a reporter.

The ports decision may be a harmless one, but if so, it will be first harmless decision the administration has made.

The difference between a venomous spider and a harmless one can be quite tiny.

And maybe they believed patronizingly, with liberal, enlightened indulgence that a ridiculous person is also a harmless one.

The word for non-magical folk manages to sound like exactly what it is: a bit of a goober, but a harmless one.

He explained all the ways you can tell a poisonous snake apart from a harmless one (and how to identify a number of each).

But as branding exercises go, it's a fairly harmless one (a philosopher makes a more congenial mascot than the all-conquering, drunken Alexander, whose face adorns cafes and gift shops in Macedon, to the west).

Set up this question with a more harmless one, "Where are you from originally?" We all want a partner that is going to attach to us in a healthy way.

One might suggest that such relational actions-at-a-distance are harmless ones, perhaps merely "semantic"; like becoming the "best" at a task when your only competitor who might be miles away—fails.

He struck out six, walked two and allowed a pair of harmless one-out singles -- to Victor Martinez in the third and J. D. Drew in the fifth.

Some generally harmless ones have a bad effect on certain people".