Sentence examples for old silly from inspiring English sources

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It looked like old Silly Putty.

I look like my old, silly, craggy self.

The guy who supposedly doesn't just take any old silly role!

And in being tipped this sly wink, we are evidently given to understand that this hipper new version of Annie is not the same old silly schmaltz.

JW Lambert wrote: "It is not clear to me how an actor whom I recall as an extremely well set up Aufidius [in Coriolanus] has transformed himself into a twig-limbed old silly".

You know it's proper to say "silly old fool" and wrong to say "old silly fool", but you might never have thought about why – or if you did you probably imagined it was just some time-honoured convention you picked up by rote.

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It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly..

It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly...

And I thought of my son, who was seven years old, and, silly enough, I thought I wanted to continue my work on the Olympics.

The decision has outraged fans on message boards and reawakened old, somewhat silly debates about rock, pop, sales, artistic legitimacy, and longevity.

Clever old us, silly old them.In Mr Fowden's telling of the story, by contrast, the response from Christians and Muslims to Aristotle's newly rediscovered genius was never as simple as rejection or acceptance; there was a spectrum of reactions with many points.

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