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Example sentences for: deadening

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

How nice that you are sitting in an idyllic New England town, away from the deadening lighting of a typical office.
Michael Kinsley's stated refusal to participate "in the deadening conformity of the culture [of] cyberspace" takes an unusual form in his article "Social Security: From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game."
I think it's led to a lot of arid, deadening art.
The moral component to Krugman's argument is that we should not allow our squeamishness to prevent Third World laborers from deciding that 50 cents a day making Reeboks is better than a deadening, declining rural poverty.
There is a deadening conformity in the hipness of cyberspace culture in which we don't intend to participate.