Example sentences for: humdrum

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

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

  • 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.

  • I used not some humdrum portable but the Discovery/Pentagon CD-70, a top-of-the-line machine that retails for $5,000.

  • 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."

  • It's the way the twins (played by co-writers Mark Polish and Michael Polish, who also directed the film) are photographed to look so wanly beautiful and dear , like the hero of the play (not the David Lynch movie) The Elephant Man . They seem enigmatic when whispering in each other's ears, but when you actually hear what they're saying it's so humdrum that you wonder why they even bother to talk.


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