How to Use silly season in a Sentence
silly season
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All part of the equation in the NFL Draft silly season.
—Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 16 Apr. 2018
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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
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The podcast won't stay weekly through the silly season.
—Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
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The arrival of the NBA playoffs, of course, means it’s almost silly season in the league ... and fans will soon be tantalized with trade rumors and free agent dreams.
—Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
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The silly season is that part of the year when coaching rumors are flying around like Santa’s reindeer.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 6 Dec. 2019
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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
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With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond this weekend.
—Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 16 Sep. 2017
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Coaching searches are the silly season of sports reporting.
—Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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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
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With much of the field still unsettled, silly season will likely extend beyond Sonoma.
—Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2017
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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
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But with it, comes the actualisation of this silly season.
—SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
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After that, the silly season begins, with every politician focusing on the midterm elections.
—Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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In a showdown truly worthy of August’s silly season, Trump’s very briefly tenured communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, and the president and his allies have been involved in a fierce insult-fest.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
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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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