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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.
The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says the movie imitates the medium it critiques, "pumping up the humdrum into the histrionic."
I used not some humdrum portable but the Discovery/Pentagon CD-70, a top-of-the-line machine that retails for $5,000.
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.
This curiously curt coinage, based on cathartic, at least has the merit of getting out of the usual humdrum -ize rut.
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