dullness
Example Sentences
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The manufacturing hub, which anchors the region that is home to auto giant Toyota, is Japan’s fourth most-populous city and, according to a decade-old newspaper poll that still stings here, number one in dullness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
The musical is an American invention, and its garish traditions blossomed during the Great Depression when extravaganza at the movie theater relieved the dullness of everyday life.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023
Excessive coloring of the hair to lighten the color can cause damage to the hair shaft leading to dullness, increased hair fragility, and breakage.
From National Geographic • Aug. 22, 2023
A 90-minute ramble revealed L.A.’s familiar extremes: big houses alongside dingbats, the shock of the unexpected coinciding with numbing dullness.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
He would lose himself in thoughts of her, and plan his next letter, refining the phrases, trying to find comedy in the dullness.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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