How to Use silly season in a Sentence

silly season

noun
  • Now, here and everywhere else, silly season is a thing of the past.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There is almost no way for this year’s silly season to match the madness of last year.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2018
  • Who wore shame best this silly season, there’s still months to go to November.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 12 June 2024
  • This year, the silly season got underway well before the first of the year, and it's been sillier than most.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 May 2024
  • The silly season is that part of the year when coaching rumors are flying around like Santa’s reindeer.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 Dec. 2019
  • With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond this weekend.
    — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Beware silly season In the void between free agency and the draft, there is silly season.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
  • With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond Sonoma.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Another subplot in a silly season that has already proved anything is possible.
    — Luke Smith, The Athletic, 23 Apr. 2024
  • After that, the silly season begins, with every politician focusing on the midterm elections.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Despite that silly season smoke there does not seem to be a fire inside the Smoothie King Center locker room.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Who crowd, Truth Seekers is a gentle, silly season of paranormal hijinks.
    — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • This normally silly season has turned sinister, and the stakes to Democrats are existential.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But this year, political silly season has started early, and the swirl of rumor has been especially intense.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Other times, the silly season makes perfect sense, and that can be especially maddening for fan bases (and athletic directors) with a coach whose name pops up in the rumor mill.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • That was before the prolonged silly season of rumors, potential trades, and speculation misdirected us from such a logical choice.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But this is a warning that these guys aren’t going to help much during the NFL silly season, of which looming free agency and planning for the draft are primary components.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Season 6 arrives, after the slow and often silly season 5, with the characters being moved to a maximum-security prison after that whole riot thing.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2018
  • After the way every possible permutation of this topic has been bandied about for the past month — such is the NBA silly season — the answers should not surprise anyone.
    — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, 20 July 2019
  • And yet reporters and pundits, desperate for drama in this silly season of politics, are beginning to convince themselves that Kennedy has the makings of a serious candidate.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • This is not so much a breakthrough as a slight crack in the paintwork, but at the height of silly season this is exactly the kind of seemingly insignificant (and probably, actually, insignificant) development that provokes widespread hysteria.
    — SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018

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