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

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

But his approach to his books was shaped in part by his Jesuit background, by the depth of his learning and the dullness of how he learned it.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

It doesn't matter what it is — beauty or bliss or sadness or tragedy or dullness or despair or horror or ecstasy or the ordinary — it's the writer's job.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

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