banality

Example Sentences

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Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

Madeleine Thien has penned an all-too-human novel that explores themes of collaboration and resistance, exile and community, and the banality of living in “interesting times.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

Or, was "SNL" presenting queerness with the same banality as we’ve come to see straightness, albeit with the use of a somewhat dehumanizing pun?

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

Like the social media that’s potentially inspired it, male cosmetic procedures are accessible, acceptable, and possibly moving toward banality.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2024

Lydia felt actual physical revulsion at the banality of Dahlia’s problems in the great scope of things.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner