Sentence examples for foolish question from inspiring English sources

"Foolish question" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to respond to someone who has asked a question that is considered to be silly or obvious. For example, "Do fish need water to survive?" "Foolish question."

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There is no such thing as a foolish question.

Here are the facts(or false information) that have me stumped concerning this seemingly foolish question.

I often ask her this foolish question; it's become a tradition.

As if it were a foolish question, and one that nobody knew the answer to.

"Yes," he once told a carping critic, "it all comes down to this foolish question, how to win".

Asked if she would have sold her seventh child, if it had been a boy, she could not understand how anyone could ask such a foolish question.

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You ask foolish questions.

"And what are they to put their children apprentice to?" Those weren't foolish questions.

His mood did not change even when he had to respond to foolish questions.

Meanwhile, telcos continue asking the same foolish questions: why do people want bandwidth?

Anthony was taught from an early age not to "shame" his father with "poor manners," public "stupidity" or "foolish questions".

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