How to Use vapid in a Sentence

vapid

adjective

• Kendrick fans find Drake too vapid, Drake fans find Kendrick too dense.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• More, still, found the whole uproar to be vapid, if not absurd.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• These phrases are not in and of themselves rude or vapid.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• Were these claims merely vapid that would be bad enough.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2021
• Tanya is too pitiable to die in a comedy; Mark is too vapid to go in a drama.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
• Elves, on the other hand, seem to be prissy, elitist and vapid.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2017
• As such, the sentences, the words, the paragraphs, are just really vapid.
  — Hayley Glatter, The Atlantic, 21 July 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
• Maybe that’s how this vapid obsession started in the first place.
  — Henry Giardina, The New Yorker, 2 May 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No one in these elite and vapid circles cares much about either the offender or the offense.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Albeit, this guy is a lot less interesting than Chrises, and a lot more vapid.
  — Hannah Jackson, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2023
• The thrills are simplistic, and the conversations are vapid.
  — Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• The vapid Briney, for his part, is a blank slate: a pretty boy who navigates Dalí’s wonderland with wide eyes and a willingness to get swept up in a vivid dream.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Advertisement These phrases are not in and of themselves rude or vapid.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The beautiful, vapid, red-haired Elsa badly burns her skin.
  — Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• The birth of Teen Girl Squad where vapid, poorly drawn stick figure girls went to the mall, crushed on the high school quarterback, babysat, and intermittently suffered gruesome deaths?
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• But Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 isn’t just aiming at clearly vapid forms of media.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
• The docuseries shows the artist rather than the circus, chronicling his unorthodox approach and his move away from the vapid club music of the time through footage in the studio and conversations with those who were there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Senator Lamar Alexander too acknowledged that these are the facts, only to scurry behind the vapid excuse that this is for the people, not the Senate, to decide.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Even so, the Army promotion board—which consisted of some of the most vapid generals in the service—declined to give McMaster a general’s star.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 20 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024