How to Use drivel in a Sentence

drivel

noun
  • Will anyone please save us from this drivel?
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
  • An excellent point, in the face of a bunch of classless drivel.
    — Heidi Stevens, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The Kris-cross, applesauce drivel is gone.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2026
  • They aren’t asked to try to mine comedy from being too old to dance at a wedding or some such drivel.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • To many observers, such a diet of drivel would be a recipe for despair — or at least jadedness.
    — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Alas, the discussion confirms that this kind of drivel has gained real traction of late.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Jimmy Quinn has a post on the latest drivel to come out of the White House.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Sadly, that sort of circular drivel is what passes for deep thinking on race today.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • This is some boring, recycled drivel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Beall’s drivel is definitely worthy of bird cage lining.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There was a time when the department would have pushed back on such drivel, but with a spineless, left-lib commissioner, that didn’t happen.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • This is drivel based on an erroneous understanding of how the atmosphere gets its oxygen.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Such drivel has been widespread, from the fringes of the right-wing internet to mainstream conservative organs.
    — Graham Vyse, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Poison for one’s brand, such corporate drivel undermines trust in you and your company, turning away prospects.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • More money, more pressure, more problems, more ambitions, more New Age drivel.
    — The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Spectrum viewers are being punished enough without having to listen to this drivel.
    — latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Some of this material was drivel, sure, but much of it entertained and educated the masses.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The rumour mill has been filled with intriguing news stories, worrying tales of player exits and some absolute drivel.
    — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Many of the most popular sports pundits cast off analytics as superfluous nerd drivel.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Alt-right drivel isn’t a threat to the constitutional experiment.
    — David French, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
  • This can easily devolve into so much corporate drivel scattered on office walls that hold no real meaning for anyone.
    — Yec, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Its most powerful motif is the spread, a debate technique that calls for blasting your opponent with a drivel of information.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Who knows how many might have spouted Marxist dogma or QAnon conspiracy drivel?
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Netflix is continuing to pump out forgettable reality show drivel that will do nothing to fix its problems.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Any real feelings on their albums are quickly overrun by generic, formulaic drivel.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Unfortunately, this was not the first instance of Mendoza promoting such drivel.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The ambulances in America will always be full because men with guns who spend too much time reading drivel on the Internet will never stop killing us.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Many critics admire its creativity, while others have panned it as unintelligible drivel.
    — Debra Filcman, Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2018
  • So when the latest would-be Einstein announces yet another theory, my eyes start to glaze over in anticipation of drivel and disappointment.
    — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021

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