Sentence examples for innocuous words from inspiring English sources

What seemed to me like innocuous words have enormous power on television".

Kesha would take these innocuous words with the naughty undertones and ferret out their bawdy center.

Even innocuous words such as "trousers", "leg", and "sweat" were banned from polite discourse.

There's no question that certain innocuous words in the scientific literature, like "robust" and "nuanced," have become trendy.

But to reveal the pernicious assumptions behind these professedly innocuous words will take more than a sophisticated search engine.

Cameramen and reporters lined up 10 deep to hear the most innocuous words tumble from his mouth.

DENVER — In much of the nation, "monument" is an innocuous word, conjuring up images of historical figures cast in bronze or road-side plaques few stop to read.

Thus I learned that ciao, such an innocuous word, is ultimately a dismissal, and one must not tarry after receiving it.

My client was found guilty, on the other hand, for using the seemingly more innocuous word coconut, because the context in which he used that word was as a black man, being arrested by a black police officer.

I'm especially pleased that the top three exemplify three different approaches, embodying three completely different surface readings, which only goes to show how abundantly fertile cryptic clue writing can be and how diversely creative clue writers can be when confronting a relatively innocuous word.

But that innocuous word belies the record both the academic results of private school choice and the way it was used historically to continue school segregation after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.