How to Use frivolous in a Sentence

frivolous

adjective
  • She thinks window shopping is a frivolous activity.
  • No more frivolous play with the puck.
    — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Anyone who tries to tell you that play is frivolous is wrong.
    — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • And the very act of writing felt like a frivolous use of time.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Home decor might sound frivolous.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Some of them are what people should wear and those are the more frivolous ones.
    — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
  • This is true even if the celebrity regards the claims as false or frivolous.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • So, do more of the important stuff and less of the frivolous.
    — Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There is no right to file false claims or pursue frivolous cases.
    — WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • My social joy, and the social joy of those around me, is not frivolous.
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • She was said to be a frivolous thing, obsessed with anything that sparkled.
    — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Theater talk is some of the most frivolous talk, and it should be shouted from the rooftops.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Of course, anyone can sue the state, but this wasn’t a frivolous lawsuit.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There's nothing frivolous to get stuck in your head, so there's nothing to want out.
    — John Mayer, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2005
  • Tillis claims his bill is meant to deter frivolous lawsuits.
    — George Harris, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • For Trump of all people to gripe about frivolous lawsuits is pure hypocrisy.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Yet the product in the ad was more frivolous than functional.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Flirting feels fun, not frivolous, and your heart knows exactly when to lean in.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Davis doesn't always win, and judges have dismissed more than a few of his challenges as frivolous.
    — M.l. Elrick, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • The idea is to ensure that matters that end up in court aren't frivolous and are raised by the right parties.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • The case was thrown out, as were the array of other frivolous lawsuits the man has filed from his prison cell.
    — Michael Balsamo, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Yet the thought of training seemed frivolous at a time when their homeland was being ravaged.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • An over-the-top impression might appear to be a frivolous concern in these dire times.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • At the time, adding one or two more $10-a-month streaming services didn’t seem frivolous.
    — Erin McCarthy, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There was nothing to say to someone working on such a frivolous topic.
    — Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Challenges that once seemed frivolous have ended up in front of the Supreme Court in the past.
    — Sarah Kliff, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Look, fancy laundry detergent may seem frivolous, but all the best gifts are.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, the visitor is a frivolous young man, Khlestakov, who has lost all his money at cards.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • People were still coming in for Botox, fillers, rashes, all the things that seem so frivolous now.
    — Rachel Krause, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Gothard has asked the court for attorney’s fees, claiming the lawsuit was frivolous.
    — Sarah Stankorb, Marie Claire, 15 June 2018

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