Example sentences for: bland

How can you use “bland” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "It's the Bland Boys almost all the way" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). (A trailer is available here.)

  • "The odd aspect of the film is that, though we quickly realize we have seen this story before, it's being done so intelligently that we're enjoying it" (Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Those who aren't caught up in the story call it bland; some find the ending forced.

  • Those who pan the movie call it a vanity project for the now-famous brothers that offers "nothing fresh, and everything bland" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Or as Susan Wloszczyna writes in USA Today : "Let's hope they have exorcised these pap-spewing demons and get their minds back in the gutter."

  • The A-list critics who usually puff the star offer only bland praise this time.

  • Those offices actually are quite snazzy, in an ever-so-faintly seedy downtown sort of way, inciting no small amount of envy in those of us who labor in the bland corporate vineyards of Redmond, Wash.


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