How to Use boilerplate in a Sentence

boilerplate

noun
  • The movie is tense from the start, aided by the fact that the plot is far from boilerplate.
    — Alec Dent, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • Because the artists used grids to plan these boilerplate wall scenes, even the proportions are the same.
    — Bob Brier, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Kevin McCarthy stood at the head of the table to give his boilerplate toast.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • Add the usual boilerplate about not wanting to be a distraction at such a crucial time.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • The book resorts to boilerplate vignettes that do not go far beyond what is already in the public record.
    — Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The key is that gratitude needs to feel personal, not boilerplate.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • And these are from form leases, with boilerplate language that is available on the internet.
    — Curbed, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Both contained much of the same boilerplate language, right down to the ballet/ballot typo.
    — Rob Kuznia, Bob Ortega and Casey Tolan, CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Much about these two foils goes unexplored, the movie rendering them boilerplate hero and villain.
    — John Serba | [email protected], NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
  • Screenshots show the employee replied with the same boilerplate language.
    — Brian Edwards, ProPublica, 17 May 2021
  • Temperatures cold enough to lay down ten inches of boilerplate on a lake surface will quickly take their toll.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • There were a lot of boilerplate answers that came out of the annual coaches breakfast, as usual.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Given a chance to comment on dozens of assertions, the team took more than a day and then issued a boilerplate statement.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Read full email › Even the difference in the boilerplate language at the bottom of each email is striking.
    — Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 18 July 2024
  • Maybe the most important part of Biden’s speech were a few lines that might sound like foreign policy boilerplate.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The first three-quarters of the speech was good but essentially Hall of Fame boilerplate.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Such a line of questioning forms the boilerplate for all of Murakami’s fiction.
    — Jeffery Renard Allen, latimes.com, 4 May 2017
  • Also be careful of that boilerplate, standard, $10 or so many trusts list on schedule A.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • My advice would be to go up there for 15 minutes and give the blandest, most boilerplate answers imaginable.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The movie’s fight scenes are boilerplate, with no sense of the heroines’ vulnerabilities, no sense of what can be escaped from and what can’t.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • For example, look at what happened to the last creative effort that strived to get beyond the standard climate change boilerplate.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
  • That just makes coding a lot faster, where a lot of boilerplate code is being done by the AI, saving humans for human tasks.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Next to the depth of Lacey’s struggle, or Dee Dee’s awakening, the others seem more like boilerplate.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • After Game 6, he was asked a fairly boilerplate question about going home for Game 7.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • The other 52% of filings shared only the same, vague boilerplate language about the incidents.
    — Sam Sabin, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In New York, Prince’s book contract was deviating far from the boilerplate.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Prioritize your top neighborhoods, and create core pages that go beyond boilerplate.
    — Oleg Levitas, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Lawyer often cannot resist the urge to take a red pen to the contract’s boilerplate language, regardless of whether their specialty is contract law.
    — Joan Herlong, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That will pose problems for the many sites and service providers that threw up a boilerplate cookie consent box to comply with GDPR.
    — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This grants corporate counsel the safety needed to swap low-value boilerplate for high-value modeling variables.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

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