Use of hackneyed in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include hackneyed at the start of sentence, hackneyed at the end of sentence and hackneyed in the middle of sentence

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hackneyed at the end of sentence


  1. This article is rather hackneyed.
  2. Things we learn at school are always hackneyed.
  3. Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed.
  4. Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
  5. So what if her first original words in months were the most hackneyed.
  6. But this kind of excited appreciation of naturalism in characterisation was not yet hackneyed.

hackneyed in the middle of sentence


  1. It is a hackneyed expression.
  2. The hackneyed theory governed that time.
  3. I worried it was hackneyed, an embarrassment.
  4. It is a mere hackneyed tune being played anew.
  5. Noone would like to accepts the hackneyed idea.
  6. The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.
  7. To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself.
  8. All those slogans we used to chant sound so hackneyed now.
  9. The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.
  10. His message was a hackneyed and grasping exposition of those fears.
  11. Properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate.
  12. This may sound hackneyed, but he really did treat the bar girls as ladies.
  13. On Valentine 's Day, chocolate and roses are hackneyed presents for girls.
  14. This features the most hackneyed sections of the soundtrack of Casablanca.
  15. Politicians tend to repeat the same hackneyed expressions over and over again.
  16. Is there any point in returning to these hackneyed images of the heroic Far West?
  17. The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakenss into strength.
  18. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
  19. He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.
  20. The singular storyline puts a twist on hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.
  21. She was discovering that there was truth in one of showbusiness's most hackneyed old sayings: Fame costs.
  22. The singular storyline puts a twist on a hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.
  23. His speech seems to have no original ideas, furthermore it's full of hackneyed and stereotyped expressions.

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