How to Use humdrum in a Sentence

humdrum

adjective
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  • She liked the movie, but I thought it was humdrum.
  • The date starts off sort of humdrum, and Javed gets ready to call it a night.
    — Owen Gleiberman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The wheels come off in the first scene – normally a humdinger, here just humdrum.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • Most of the time, the 116-year-old movie theater business is rather humdrum.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
  • In other words, the sun is a bit humdrum, which might be good for life here on Earth.
    — Adam Mann, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Today, even the most humdrum Hampton Inn room can be opened with Hilton’s app.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Even the most humdrum dates feel fresh with another duo.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
  • White walls and a white shag carpet completed the humdrum look.
    — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Both sides agreed that the recount went smoothly but as the day wore on, the humdrum trickle of a vote here and a vote there began to build to high tension.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The two clubs met only last month, with the Baggies frustrating Klopp's men and grinding out a humdrum 0-0 draw.
    — SI.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • For lunch, add cooked button mushrooms to your otherwise humdrum bowl of grains and greens.
    — Mushroom Council, Bon Appétit, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The other half were told to write about an unemotional humdrum day.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
  • The movie, set in a humdrum New Jersey suburbia, unfolds on the moldy bottom rung of the comic-book ladder.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • What’s clear in the interim, however—and what should be a bit worrisome to GM—is that the Bolt launch has been pretty humdrum, and not just in terms of sales.
    — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017
  • The daring mission is rather humdrum, with the pair easily infiltrating the fortress and Fennec killing about three dozen guards in the process.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • One day in December 2010, a policewoman in a small and rather humdrum town in Tunisia slapped the face of Mohamed Bouazizi.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Williams campus is a humdrum brick pile that could be mistaken for an office park — a far cry from McLaren’s space-age complex an hour’s drive away.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • Only a writer as agile and profound as Nors would dare to proceed from such a heavy-handed (and humdrum) premise.
    — Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic, 18 June 2018
  • When the Hamptons start to feel humdrum, consider a trip to another time and head due north to Newport, Rhode Island.
    — Vogue, 24 July 2023
  • In New York, the partial blockage was so humdrum, so generic, so blah that a lot of people didn’t even bother going outside to see it.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The shell elevates the humdrum ride into a Lambo, Mustang or Camaro look-alike.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2019
  • These stylish dishcloths make cleaning a little less humdrum.
    — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For the mini home makeover, Gaines made the previously humdrum ceilings into the home’s showpieces.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 16 Feb. 2023
  • To be clear: This is not about settling, about making peace with the humdrum sexism of traditional workplaces.
    — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 6 Sep. 2017
  • For four out of every five years, Kassel is a relatively humdrum town.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • Here, the Korea Foods superstore acts like a wormhole, whisking shoppers away from the humdrum suburbs and into the heart of downtown Seoul.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Humdrum numbers leave some brands in question, with lower budgets and younger casts likely for those that return.
    — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • In their view, Apple is a former dynamo that's now a humdrum but reliable cash machine.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Turns out, this narrower focus on cloning in an otherwise humdrum life is the fresh element that the trope needed.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Even the more humdrum livestock sacrificed at the site point to Navan Fort’s significance.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019

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