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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says the movie imitates the medium it critiques, "pumping up the humdrum into the histrionic."


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