How to Use stolid in a Sentence

stolid

adjective
  • She remained stolid during the trial.
  • In a West Wing run by a novice clown, the stolid hack is king.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But the picture also feels stolid and one note.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2026
  • This happens again when Quavo shows up to rap a stolid verse.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Not space, and not stolid form, as is often the case in Western art.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Musically speaking, both songs are stolid, turgid, and no fun.
    — David Cantwell, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There is a charge running through the place that is at odds with the stolid, unchanging poverty along the street outside.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2015
  • Experts had all sorts of stolid objections or arguments in favor of it.
    — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • The current uncertainty and widespread panic would shake even the most stolid of hearts.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Buck is more reassuringly stolid than live-wire Bucky, but both are models of courage.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • What isn’t great is seeing Pitt wobble between movie-star stolid and bad-actor wooden.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Joel Edgerton plays Robert Grainier, an orphan who grows up to be a stolid working man.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Its plot is as clever as its imagination is stolid, its subjects are as serious as its approach to them is bland.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • But Nézet-Séguin kept the textures light; even at its mightiest, the sound was never stolid.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The Roosevelt, a stolid 19 masonry floors, can’t compete in this new game.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Roxanne, a lover of poetry, craves love letters, but the stolid Christian is no writer.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Thus began an avalanche against a typically stolid Celtics defense.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2022
  • Pozharskaya has a natural intensity that the film, with all its stolid sincerity, could have used more of.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But this innate talent was treated as an affront, rather than a gift, by a family that could have used her to burnish its own stolid image.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Baseball offers a more stolid form of entertainment that doesn’t lend itself to hoopla as readily.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Just three years later, the brand was reborn again as the ultimate expression of stolid S-class prestige.
    — Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But this almost stolid intrepid reading of Chekhov’s daily productions is what makes this book so pleasurable.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • While the upright and stolid external shape encourages jokes, there is really nothing at all that is funny about a Saab.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The story is ambiguous, but the image draws our eye from inside to outside, from the delicate wild bird, through doors and windows to the stolid mountains.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Her consummate grasp of the art of the stage galvanizes this otherwise stolid production into searing life.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 11 July 2022
  • There are Grevy's zebras, elands, stolid buffaloes in a dry wallow—and always Mount Kenya, piled high with clouds just now, like curls of meringue.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Melissa Jacques gives Margaret a stolid steadiness that grounds the proceedings in essential ways.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • That’s because the stolid, long-suffering Vic seems to tolerate her infidelity, rather than lose her to divorce.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Though even his private self might not be able to articulate it, this crushing cycle—strutting boy into stuck, stolid man—is what Gar’s running from.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Kinlaw remained stolid throughout most of the public comment period and did not address calls for his resignation.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026

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