Sentence examples for saying something silly from inspiring English sources

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At one point, I switched back from the Saints-Lions wild card game to see George Stephanopoulos vainly trying to bait Romney into saying something silly about the constitutional right to privacy and whether it would allow states to ban contraceptives.

So at the end of the day, how to engage women has to be a candidate's priority, rather than saying something silly that's going to alienate them because it's given a glimpse of something in a candidate that hits a sour note.

Don't try and say too much; just get to the point as soon as possible so you don't end up saying something silly that would embarrass your friend.

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Said something silly about food banks.

Yes, he had said something "silly" and out of "context" potentially "misleading", about being "self-employed".

Because I drowned in self-reproach every time I did or said something silly, which was often.

As sure as the day is long, Archie can be called upon to say something silly.

I could see when I'd said something silly (like calling myself an overweight Mexican), or when I was bragging.

But this week she said something silly, pooh-poohing the idea of fiction about publishing: "It's such an internal, cerebral sort of job," she said.

And it's not easy, because you wonder when it will time to make a joke again, or laugh and say something silly.

It has happened probably because I said something silly, like, "I don't know why I would ever get married again, because I was much better than the man I was dating," and so it becomes a story.

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