Sentence examples for silly trick from inspiring English sources
It's a cheap and silly trick that is completely unnecessary and annoyingly gimmicky.
George Bernard Shaw was with Cormac McCarthy on the apostrophe: "There is not the faintest reason for persisting in the ugly and silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli".
He said of most apostrophes, "There is not the faintest reason for persisting in the ugly and silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli". He was right in claiming that archaic spellings were maintained to keep the poor illiterate, but wrong to think that they would impede the spread of English as a world language.
The warmists have steadfastly refused to debate their case, instead they rely on slick pr and for liberal sympathisers to pull the sort of rather silly trick you have-tricks that have been going on since the very start of this nonsensical proposition.
Both halves of the parental partnership can add photos, movies, sounds, and notes to the baby's timeline — and as a bit of a cool (if silly) trick: if you put both phones next to each other, you can view the timeline spread out across the resulting double-sized display.
This silly trick works almost every time.
In circuses, the only "exercise" elephants get is when they perform silly tricks.
"In no way is doga for teaching dogs silly tricks," she said.
"The best thing you can do, Stanley," Mr Smeeth blandly advises, "is to drop these silly tricks.
Therein lies the killer whale's real weakness: its suitability for being displayed and taught to perform silly tricks, made all the more marvellous by its reputation as a ruthless assassin.
