How to Use milquetoast in a Sentence

milquetoast

1 of 2 noun

• For 30 years we’ve been forced to hear this milquetoast song salad.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2017
• Now, this doesn't mean Biden will need to tap a milquetoast moderate.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• Today, more than half of the cars and trucks for sale boast as much power or more, including the milquetoast Kia Sorento.
  — David Ingold, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
• There is something a little milquetoast and benign about that phrase.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2018
• The most milquetoast of all the sauces sampled, this offering is far too tame in the heat and tang department, relying instead on salt to do all the work.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
• Boone, shown in old footage singing the scorcher in a button-down sweater and with a milquetoast smile, moved more copies of the song than Little Richard, who, as the songwriter, was paid a half-cent for every record sold.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Joe Burrow and the offense look better each week, and the Titans' milquetoast pass rush and secondary represent a sneaky-good matchup.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2020
• Many of Pi’s comments have that milquetoast quality of taking many words to say nothing.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• On paper, everything looks good, but in person and behind the wheel, the Sienna comes off as milquetoast.
  — Mike Austin, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023
• Disney may look milquetoast next to the freewheeling spirit of the Fleischers.
  — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
• After all, the milquetoast reforms that the party cannot even pass wouldn’t make much of a dent in our problem, which is, in a macro sense, a crisis of handguns and suicides, not assault weapons and mass shootings.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Oct. 2017
• Before the days of Peyton Manning and his milquetoast insurance ads, there was football’s true dual threat—or in the case of Sammy Baugh, quadruple threat.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Before the election of Donald Trump, Schiff was known in Washington as a milquetoast moderate.
  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
• In the midst of all this, the NCAA is perceived as a milquetoast organization unwilling to be aggressive with the offenders.
  — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Foster met that challenge and then some, bringing a quirkier personality and spunk to a role that can often read as a milquetoast ingenue.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 June 2022
• Booker has portrayed McGrath as a milquetoast centrist, ignoring how a moderate may be more electable in the ruby-red state.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
• The life-sized bronze replica captures Wilson in all his Midwestern milquetoast glory.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• Congress has in recent months only really been able to muster a milquetoast gun-control bill that does little to address the root causes of gun violence.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
• Though he was maligned as a milquetoast patsy, Alan Colmes’s run as the original Fox News liberal looks better in retrospect.
  — Graham Vyse, New Republic, 24 May 2017
• The metamorphosis of milquetoast Neil Gorsuch has baffled people who’ve followed him for years.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• The milquetoast statement angered people on both sides: those who thought Bud Light owed them an apology, and trans rights advocates who wanted a stronger defense of the at-risk community.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 July 2023
• While printers might have seemed like the most milquetoast of electronics before the pandemic, sales soared once everyone started working from home and couldn’t rely on the office printer any longer.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2022
• Many words could be used to describe the outlook for the 2022 tax season ranging from milquetoast terms, like challenging or problematic, all the way to more honest forecasts, such as one horrific tax headache on the horizon.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2022
• Kat is a mean girl masquerading as milquetoast, and an equal-opportunity offender in trashing men’s looks, too.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• This off-season is what the league needed after a milquetoast postseason that was soured by an overwhelming feeling of inevitability.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 6 July 2017
• This is in high contrast with her brother, Walt (Michael Shannon), who runs Harlan’s publishing company and wears muted, drab cardigans and milquetoast pleated khakis.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• The disarray is baffling for the audience, and downright punishing for Hart, whose lead character is forced to shape-shift between scenes, veering from milquetoast to petty to tyrannical to pushed-around.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• Sandoval issues a milquetoast statement to the world via his Instagram page, apologizing to everyone but Madix.
  — Hannah Selinger, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
• Jadeveon Clowney will end his milquetoast, barb-free holdout in typical holdout-ending fashion.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Make Dolores the uncompromising leader of the burgeoning robot uprising—with actual, permanent stakes for the park and its hosts and guests—and leave the quibbling to milquetoasts like Teddy.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018

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milquetoast

2 of 2 adjective

• The vote was unanimous, and no one objected to the milquetoast description of the melee.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
• Republicans only have a single-person majority in both the House and Senate, her threat is milquetoast.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
• Relative to other manager tirades, Baldelli’s confrontation was decidedly milquetoast — a low-stakes outburst over a close call at home plate in the middle of baseball’s dog days.
  — Zach Schonbrun Desiree Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Skeptics, meanwhile, see another old, milquetoast white man saddled with Trump’s baggage, but without his charisma.
  — Jill Colvin, Chron, 30 Mar. 2021
• The 58-year-old actor, a Chicago improv veteran who grew up in Naperville, plays Hutch, a seemingly milquetoast suburban husband who, trying to keep his family safe, doesn’t fight back when thieves break into his home one night.
  — chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• The vote was unanimous, and no one objected to the milquetoast description of the melee.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
• Republicans only have a single-person majority in both the House and Senate, her threat is milquetoast.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
• Relative to other manager tirades, Baldelli’s confrontation was decidedly milquetoast — a low-stakes outburst over a close call at home plate in the middle of baseball’s dog days.
  — Zach Schonbrun Desiree Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Skeptics, meanwhile, see another old, milquetoast white man saddled with Trump’s baggage, but without his charisma.
  — Jill Colvin, Chron, 30 Mar. 2021
• The 58-year-old actor, a Chicago improv veteran who grew up in Naperville, plays Hutch, a seemingly milquetoast suburban husband who, trying to keep his family safe, doesn’t fight back when thieves break into his home one night.
  — chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021

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