Sentence examples for trite expression from inspiring English sources

Little did I dream, to use a trite expression from books of my childhood, that she would take over books of her own".

"I didn't think, to use a trite expression, that all the oxygen would be sucked out of the air for so long," Mr. Biden said in an interview.

I hesitate to use this trite expression, which has been employed as a weapon against non-commodity farmers and even taken up as a marketing campaign by everybody's favorite villain, Monsanto.

James seems to be making a comment about how, on the most celebratory occasions, one cannot help clumsily using trite expressions like "tender bridal benediction".

We need to, because mostly our national conversation echoes with shallow regurgitations of trite expressions.

It is tempting to dismiss this trite formulation as a meaningless excuse for inaction.

People think that we overuse the concept of green, and it could become trite in its expression".

As a child, I regularly heard him say such things as "ignorance is bliss," "laughter is the best medicine" and "first things first," and swore I would never use such trite and overused expressions.

A unique, uncanny moment was framed by the most familiar and predictable kind of coverage and commentary: Anchors, compelled to say something, reached for trite metaphors and hyperbolic expressions of wonder ("Our secular version of a miracle," according to one CNN commentator) that didn't begin to match the reality unfolding live behind them.

Saying so might seem trite, but it's the truth.

Just the expression "follow your dreams" has grown to sound trite and vapid in a time when people are busier than ever.