banal

Example Sentences

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Banal balms surround Janice, slowly driving her mad.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Banal bits of conversations get recounted, even when they seem only to serve as narrative clutter.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Banal good wishes soon gave way to increasingly desperate calls for help.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2020

Banal, brilliant; basic, complex: Joker had his cake, ate it and smeared the jam all over his face.

From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2019

In fulfilment of this, the said chief Magat Salamat went to the Calamianes, which are near the kingdom of Burney, taking with him the chiefs Don Agustin Manuguit and Don Joan Banal.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander