How to Use frivolity in a Sentence

frivolity

noun
  • He has no patience for frivolity.
  • He spends money on the latest fashions and other frivolities.
  • What could show greater conquest over fire than to tame it for this frivolity?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Credit cards are not tools of frivolity.
    — Matthew Kandrach, Boston Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Despite the threats posed by cold weather, there still was room for frivolity.
    — Carolyn Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The main cast gets the feel and tone of what Wilson has wrought, both the frights and the frivolity.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024
  • People say that leaning into fun and frivolity is its own balm to tragedy.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But for all the frivolity, Duo the owl must adhere to some boundaries.
    — NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • My father silently turned the car around and headed home, our night of fun and frivolity cut short.
    — Jenice Armstrong, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The video that followed boasted much of the frivolity and bizarreness fans of the show have come to expect.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • After three rounds of bombs-away frivolity, Erin Hills sobered up.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2017
  • The challenge was not to fall into frivolity, or comic farce.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Yet at the center of this world—and of the novel—is a drab little woman who has no time for frivolity.
    — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Puig would likely have objected to the idea that frivolity was opposed to truth.
    — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • And yet, there’s no frivolity here, nothing added that doesn’t support the car’s raison d’être.
    — Matthew Phenix, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2008
  • Any sense of frivolity, free of consequences, has been in short supply in the months that followed.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • All of the joy, spontaneity, and frivolity that happens in a live setting?
    — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The stunt was born amidst the loose confines of the Houston clubhouse, where frivolity rules the day.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
  • There’s no room for that sort of frivolity here; Streets is a resolutely straight-faced work.
    — Ryan Gabos, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Who are the rest of us to grant our approval, or to say such frivolity is beneath the dignity of the office?
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2017
  • But as the era of toilet-paper hoarding winds down, a little frivolity in gift-giving doesn’t seem so crass.
    — Eric Andersson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The place seems made for happy hour — the drink menu is a party just to read and the glassware is fragile frivolity made real.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But with Sharon Van Etten playing, this was the wrong place and time for such frivolity.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Months of lockdown and restrictions on social life have given way to dreams of a new era of frivolity and decadence.
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • The Porsche—any Porsche—is no fun at all; Germans aren't much given to frivolity.
    — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The sketch made fun of TikTokers’ youth, frivolity, and sometimes bizarre claims to fame.
    — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Who wouldn’t want to wander back in time to an era of frivolity and class, where women weren’t allowed to own property and the king was still the king?
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • That frivolity supplied a lesson.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Untitled Goose Game is about work’s ubiquity in the guise of one about leisure’s frivolity.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Donning a costume and mask to go prancing around might seem like the height of frivolity, but the act of dressing-up has deep roots in the human psyche.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021

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