Sentence examples for benign thing from inspiring English sources

The benign thing about disappointments is you forget them.

"She told me it was the most benign thing I could give," Ms. Buettner said.

Partly I can't shut up about what a warm and benign thing it is, just to enter its Room of the Months.

"We're all looking for better therapy for our patients, and this looks like a very benign thing to do," Dr. Keeffe said.

"People talk about the large influx of people leaving the Middle East, going to Europe and some of them wanting to go to the United States, that it may not be a benign thing to accept so many tens of thousands of people coming from the Middle East because many of them actually wish us harm," he said.

"You need help": This may seem a benign thing to say in and of itself but without clarifying it, it sounds as if you want to be rid of the "problem" and shove the person somewhere else right at that point in time.

Tom Judd often paints on discarded metal, benign things like fruit and leaves.

They're full of rabid energy about dull or benign things, like cellphone plans or ice cream.

At a recent show most of his jokes essentially involved elaborately making fun of relatively benign things that someone once said.

Polling and focus groups (then called "panel reaction" and "group interviews") seem part of what we now sometimes consider the democracy of the marketplace — at least for such benign things as recipes.

In my research on middle schoolers, the most popular game series among boys was Grand Theft Auto, which allows players to commit cartoon violence with chain saws as well as do perfectly benign things like deliver pizza on a scooter.