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

In the role of the younger Bucky, Alexandre Gonin finds a sense of awkward seriousness that never tips over into dullness.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

“There was just a weird dullness on defense.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Even in my dullness I knew I was inferior.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes