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

Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

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

“There was just a weird dullness on defense.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway