Example sentences for: dully

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

  • But the point stands: Television is like tap water or take-out pizza; it's not really good, but it's so conveniently available that we dully consume it instead of making the effort to go out for really good pizza or some truly magnificent water from, like, a solid gold tap.

  • And much of what he describes is dully familiar: There is a chimp Noam Chomsky and a chimp Liam Gallagher, and upper-class chimps read The New Yorker .

  • In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic.

  • Meaning has actually tended to be a pitfall for him, as is shown by his topical posters, only one of which is displayed here, a dully literal item for Earth Day 1970.

  • Out in the center of the ring, all alone, Romero was going on with the same thing, getting so close that the bull could see him plainly, offering the body, offering it again a little closer, the bull watching dully, then so close that the bull thought he had him, offering again and finally drawing the charge and then, just before the horns came, giving the bull the red cloth to follow with that little, almost perceptible, jerk that so offended the critical judgment of the Biarritz bull-fight experts.


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