monotony

Example Sentences

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For John Winston Isidro, life aboard his VLCC, or Very Large Crude Carrier, has been marked by equal parts monotony and precaution since his ship began playing the waiting game.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

“Life is life-ing” is the bills and the monotony and the traffic and the family — it’s all the things.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Just as the viewer starts to see the first shades of monotony rising over the horizon, Seyfried and Feig flip the script.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

Today it’s synonymous with corporate monotony and conformity, but it actually started life as the antithesis of what it came to represent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

And though it was a welcome break from the monotony of lecture, this most recent activity had a sinister element too.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss