Sentence examples for a silly remark from inspiring English sources

"I answered a question that was clearly made towards me as a joke with a silly remark, but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner".

Shortly afterwards, Garcia issued an apology: "I answered a question that was clearly made towards me as a joke with a silly remark, but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner".

At the dinner table, they once made "a silly remark about Auschwitz", implying that he was a "potential or real murderer", which Gröning said he exploded at, banging his fist on the table, saying: "This word and this connection are never, ever, to be mentioned again in my presence, otherwise I'll move out!" Gröning said that this request was respected.

She started chuckling and I could see that this silly remark by a passing tourist had reawakened in her the memory of laughter, that I had, by chance, unlocked something.

How does one silly remark become a flashpoint?

They make some silly remark, give a big cheesy smile - and they move on.

A silly, obvious remark.

It seemed a silly, conciliatory remark, not at all the kind of thing my wife's father believed.

Even before Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber had started their floor exercises, Trautwig virtually handed the gold medal to them with this silly remark: "Get inside the head of a champion.

"If someone is very evidently a dedicated Nazi that's one thing, but the odd silly remark or youthful excess is something else.

(Except presumably the "silly" remark which even the most supine interviewer, something Humphrys certainly isn't, would have challenged).