Example sentences for: humdrum

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

  • It's as humdrum and safe as they are.

  • No matter where you sit down with one of his novels, you feel like you're up past bedtime, reading with a flashlight, taking a break from your humdrum life to commune with something magic and deep and eternal.

  • This curiously curt coinage, based on cathartic, at least has the merit of getting out of the usual humdrum -ize rut.

  • Visitors to the site have included journalistic bon vivant Anthony Haden-Guest, who noted in a recent "Talk of the Town" piece for The New Yorker that among the "humdrum vulgarities that have become the bread and butter of the Internet," one can cop "a peek at some female NYU students who have wired up their dorm room."

  • Much of it is fresh, serviceable language, not merely humdrum technical derivatives or the names of gadgets and aliens, and has certifiable potential to enter the English language.


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