Sentence examples for banal question from inspiring English sources

The former professional footballer paused, annoyed with himself for fluffing a banal question about the vehicle.

The title of Simon Horobin's book poses what, at first blush, seems a banal question.

"I am weary of the old and tiresome and banal question 'Why save the wilderness?' " Abbey wrote in 1979.

Williams does not seem to mind the enforced intimacy and he reacts with winning candour – even when confronted by a banal question.

— J. David Goodman With the candidates staring across a table with two moderators in the center, the debate began with a fairly banal question: What do you expect from this debate?

Rather improbably, nothing has done more to inflame the Albany-City Hall axis than the seemingly banal question of whether a New Yorker should be able to step onto Queens Boulevard and legally hail a livery cab.

Some asked banal questions.

Asked one or two awkward and banal questions.

They seem like very banal questions, but it gives you a sketch.

My children's school has all three of these things, and the infants' playground rings with 5-year-olds saying: "Why are you asking me these banal questions?

In past years, his fear of answering even the most banal questions from reporters led him to wear a helmet while he spoke and to avoid eye contact.