Example sentences for: bland

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

  • The score, which borrows from Benjamin Britten and bebop, is called incoherent and "bland" (Paul Griffiths, the New York Times ). "One of the biggest missed opportunities the operatic world has seen in a while," says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns.

  • 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."

  • Surprisingly, the steak itself isn't bad--it had a nice hint of rosemary--but the macaroni and cheese was appallingly bland.

  • Standard popular culture is also prevalent, ranging from a bland Parisian-style cabaret to much raunchier “girly” shows.

  • Bland wealth of the suburbs,it's futile to keep despising it, I know,unfair to friends who have to live there--or else in slums--but sometimes its cultivated innocence feels like an assault.I don't want to join the country club because there are no parks.I don't want to leave my car in an underground garage,rise to the office, sink at the end of day,drive home unable to stop or roll down the windowstill I see the familiar guard in his gatepost waiting at the start of our street.


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