It was broken at last by the baronet with a very trite remark:

To use a very trite image, collect, like the bee, your store from every quarter.

This is a very trite saying, I know.

They come to seem very trite and foolish.

Things are a bit bogged down right now, but at the risk of sounding very trite, there's tomorrow.

This all sounds very trite to us: it is so true that we do not think to affirm it.

There is a very old, very trite philosophy that can be made to replace such a state of mind.

That he meant to be generous was indeed certain, and this he had typically shown in a very trite matter-of-fact way.

There was nothing in the words; it was what any girl might say; it was very trite, but it was a song.

There is an old and very trite saying in Texas that, "a dead witness is better than a live one."