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
• Not space, and not stolid form, as is often the case in Western art.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Such a legacy may not be strange for a stolid telecoms firm.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• This happens again when Quavo shows up to rap a stolid verse.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But Nézet-Séguin kept the textures light; even at its mightiest, the sound was never stolid.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• And finally, there are new ideas in a staid, stolid system.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 17 June 2017
• No, not devoted, because that made her sound stupid and stolid.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• 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
• The current uncertainty and widespread panic would shake even the most stolid of hearts.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2020
• Roxanne, a lover of poetry, craves love letters, but the stolid Christian is no writer.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
• A determined but stolid activist, Fawcett played a crucial role in the suffrage movement.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
• Just three years later, the brand was reborn again as the ultimate expression of stolid S-class prestige.
  — Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 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
• What isn’t great is seeing Pitt wobble between movie-star stolid and bad-actor wooden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The tech giant is facing the greatest legal threat in its history, and hopes the stolid approach of Kent Walker, its top lawyer, will once again prevail.
  — Nico Grant, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Stolid farmers’ wives no longer gibbered and convulsed; New England skies were no longer vexed nightly by the aerial traffic of witches and demons.
  — Adam Goodheart, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2015
• Musically speaking, both songs are stolid, turgid, and no fun.
  — David Cantwell, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• The stolid five-story structure at 220 E. Chicago Ave. was based on the traditional idea of the museum as a temple and treasure house.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Experts had all sorts of stolid objections or arguments in favor of it.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Portraits dominate the side panels: Renée, an everyday Madonna with their infant daughter on her lap on the left; on the right, the artist, bearded and stolid in work boots and a blue velvet shirt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The ideology behind Bush’s war may have been cooked up in the stolid bureaucratic world of think-tank Washington.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• Melissa Jacques gives Margaret a stolid steadiness that grounds the proceedings in essential ways.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Though both have been working on pop's front lines, this project didn't come completely out of nowhere: the two have longstanding connections to stolid, rootsier forms of music.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2017
• The inherent tension engulfs: between a ring of stolid black boxes on stands and the deeply humane and emotional voices streaming from them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps its rightful home is streaming, but that’s just a way of saying that in its stolid and forbidding way, it seems destined to be tossed, like everything else, into the vast sea of content.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024