Examples of humdrum in a Sentence
She liked the movie, but I thought it was humdrum.
another humdrum day at the office
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Can the Emmys finally break its humdrum host streak?
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Wellesley’s Cliff Estates neighborhood is so desirable, even the most humdrum Colonial would have new buyers lining up.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
So, try as Affleck might to paint his split from Lopez as humdrum and run-of-the-mill, I am now riveted by the mystery of it.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Entire sequences are devoted to tasks as humdrum as rebooting a ship’s computer (which involves untangling a lot of wires) and shepherding a little robotic sub to try retrieving Lemons, which resembles a very tense version of a fairground claw game.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Wellesley’s Cliff Estates neighborhood is so desirable, even the most humdrum Colonial would have new buyers lining up.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
So, try as Affleck might to paint his split from Lopez as humdrum and run-of-the-mill, I am now riveted by the mystery of it.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Entire sequences are devoted to tasks as humdrum as rebooting a ship’s computer (which involves untangling a lot of wires) and shepherding a little robotic sub to try retrieving Lemons, which resembles a very tense version of a fairground claw game.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Humdrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humdrum. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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humdrum
adjective
hum·drum
ˈhəm-ˌdrəm 
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