How to Use staid in a Sentence

staid

adjective

• Everyone was surprised by the funny comments from the usually staid professor.
• Of all the types of fashion event, the lingerie show is the surely the most staid.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
• Is the staid world of golf ready for a giant fashion leap?
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018
• In the staid world of vaccine medicine, this all makes Sputnik a standout.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2021
• No one wants to be the censor, no one wants to be the joke Nazi, no one wants their first dinner to be called staid.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• Then came the dreadlocks that caused a stir in the staid world of an almost entirely white sport.
  — Matthew Futterman James Hill, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• The worst part about weddings for headbangers is wedding DJs and their staid playlists.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• Yet staid, tradition-laden games don’t like change, and the world of golf is pushing back.
  — John Guaspari, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
• More to the point, a game too staid for its spikes at times begs for a broad-shouldered pair to snipe, eye-roll and tweet us to the sofa’s edge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• The whole staid biopic genre collapsed under the weight of sensitive cliché decades ago.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2022
• And as the latest designs prove, one-of-a-kind jewels are anything but staid these days.
  — Laurie Brookins, Robb Report, 13 July 2022
• Their volatility makes a fruit fly’s flight path seem staid.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
• Without the bourgeoisie’s staid and starchy mores, there is no bohemia.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Cohen’s take is cool and moody, sung in a staid, stately baritone.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• The Final Chapters, the staid 8-episode miniseries that serves as the franchise’s coda.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2022
• Van Halen had never sounded quite so staid or grown up.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020
• But rather than the usual staid studs, opt for something more modern like these baroque pearl drops.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2021
• The initial mood boards were a little staid—white subway tile, black-and-white flooring.
  — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2021
• Tech fever has spread to the once-staid warehousing industry.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2020
• Ford was known at the time for more staid, functional cars, so this was an anomaly, and very few from this era were built.
  — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 18 July 2017
• While that image may bring forth ideas of staid fine dining, Noksu isn’t that.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2023
• Indeed, the same could be said of the somewhat staid exterior styling.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
• The sector overall has maintained a rather staid identity over the years.
  — Melanie Berman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• This time of year, the flowers are done, so all visitors see is acres of staid, glossy-leaved shrubs in 5-gallon pots.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Yet the show is not all starched collars and stiff upper lips—much of the art gleefully sends up staid stereotypes.
  — The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
• With her styling, the Princess of Wales proves that the sweater has long since shed its staid image and can indeed be an elegant and chic fall trend.
  — Katharina Fuchs, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
• If changes to the staid institution are made, Jackson will likely be around to see them.
  — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 7 Apr. 2022
• That sort of staid sexiness worked fine for them, but next to Jagger Jones looked like an extra.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• These were Iowans, after all, staid and true, embarrassed by egotism, but eventually the guys in overalls seemed puzzled, then most of the rest.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
• When The New York Times added color to its print front page in 1997, some people complained that the staid paper had become unnecessarily flashy, though such gripes faded quickly as readers grew used to the change.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024