How to Use vapid in a Sentence

vapid

adjective
  • More, still, found the whole uproar to be vapid, if not absurd.
    — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Kendrick fans find Drake too vapid, Drake fans find Kendrick too dense.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Elves, on the other hand, seem to be prissy, elitist and vapid.
    — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Maybe that’s how this vapid obsession started in the first place.
    — Henry Giardina, The New Yorker, 2 May 2016
  • Those ideas, for what else the wall might do or be, manage to be at once fanciful and vapid.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Tanya is too pitiable to die in a comedy; Mark is too vapid to go in a drama.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
  • The Avs were vapid after the first 20 minutes.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 14 May 2026
  • As such, the sentences, the words, the paragraphs, are just really vapid.
    — Hayley Glatter, The Atlantic, 21 July 2016
  • No one in these elite and vapid circles cares much about either the offender or the offense.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But as the video above shows, this is only one of the many vapid requests that female athletes receive.
    — Diana Bruk, Cosmopolitan, 5 Nov. 2015
  • But the film doesn't have much to say after pointing out that the Internet is vapid and full of hatred.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
  • Albeit, this guy is a lot less interesting than Chrises, and a lot more vapid.
    — Hannah Jackson, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Advertisement These phrases are not in and of themselves rude or vapid.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Most of them were vapid, dilute and/or oxidized due to poor winemaking techniques.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Those are the kind of sentences that people will remember, unlike the vapid rhetoric of Joe Biden.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2024
  • So The Draw was ridiculously boring to watch and fatuously vapid as well.
    — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 21 July 2019
  • In a vapid moment of scrolling through the news on my phone, my son peeked over my shoulder to see a picture of that spongy ball and its stubby little tendrils.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Aside from some melodic beauty in the slow movements, the piece requires the soloist to rattle off many vapid, finger-busting exploits.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Grande was one of the brightest surprises as the vapid but not entirely heartless Glinda.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • So far, Malone has stood the test of time, morphing from a vapid, clout-chasing rapper to a self-conscious acoustic rock star.
    — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 10 July 2023
  • Instead, the reader is treated to a relentless barrage of vapid observations that soon wear thin.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
  • In order for men to be strong and powerful in our stories, women must become vapid and hyper-sexualized.
    — Erik Wecks, WIRED, 28 June 2012
  • Others take aim at the vast and vapid abstractions used to justify armed conflict, down to and including nuclear war.
    — Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Once viewed by the media as a vapid heiress and socialite, Paris Hilton is now having a sort of Parissance in the public sphere.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 5 May 2021
  • By her estimate, dressing and socializing consumed two-thirds of the time of well-off women—making them as vapid as they were presumed to be.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Its authors speak more in the vapid America-can-do-no-wrong dialect of a CNN panel.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • But Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 isn’t just aiming at clearly vapid forms of media.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
  • There’s an appealing dissonance between the look of the stubby pony and the performer’s potent pipes, which seem better suited for soulful rock tunes than vapid pop.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • The Timberwolves exposed the Nuggets as a fraud, a vapid former champion left as a chew toy in the mouth of hungry Wolves.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
  • What was once ridiculed as a vapid squad may become celebrated as an intellectual group, and all are invited to join by the Chairman.
    — Bryan West, The Tennessean, 4 Apr. 2024

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