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How to use humdrum in a sentence

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I find a lot of the people I see everyday very humdrum and old beyond their years.
She was eleven years old now, alone in this little village that was surrounded by the humdrum of the daily activities of the city.
There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well.
He could not get up everyday and face the daily humdrum life of a high school English teacher.
It would be nice to go beyond the usual everyday humdrum routine, I should think.
The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly.
After all, what can be more humdrum than a team of people armed with Hoovers, dusters and cans of furniture polish sweeping through a building?
In other towns innumerable counterparts lived similar, humdrum, unexciting lives.
Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell.
The beribboned Almost Ready accessory bag and the Go-Go garment bag are perfect for a European getaway or just humdrum daily use.
There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.
They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
The high seas harbour a host of job opportunities for those driven by wanderlust and the desire for a life away from the humdrum.
Their suburban Boston clients envisioned their basement home theater as a place to escape from the humdrum of daily life.
It's added a rare touch of glamour to the club, whose space-age stadium squats anomalously on the edge of a determinedly humdrum town.
Sometimes the rule that lets us lift the lid on the nation's secrets comes up with humdrum stuff.
When Canadians are on the road, an astounding 86 per cent choose to listen to music to beat the highway humdrum.
At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below.
Save for the occasional inspired moniker, they tend to be humdrum offerings.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My life must seem so humdrum to him, and to you, who have travelled so far and seen so much.
He just wanted to get away from the deadly humdrum existence on spaceman's Row.
It was indeed no more than a humdrum narrative of a vulgar crime.
The whole business, Tom thought, was humdrum and commonplace.
And of late years there had been for her, running through all the humdrum days, a satisfaction in perfecting it.
He sketched his humdrum labors, the prizes in his way of life.
I enter the bedroom like no mere humdrum son, but after the manner of the Glasgow waiter.
Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.
It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach.
I'm perfectly sick of the humdrum life I have been leading the last week, and you do sort of take one back to the Arabian Nights, you know, Reggie.
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