How to Use bland in a Sentence

bland

adjective

• The vegetable soup was rather bland.
• The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation.
• The lunch menu sushi hand rolls were bland and overpowered by the heavy sauce.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• This bland bird badly needs a bath in one of the many sauces Popeyes offers.
  — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
• The bacon grease soaked into the bland bread and improved the flavor.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2021
• But the scar gives him substance, rescues his looks from bland perfection.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• The rivalry would have been bland as concession-stand ketchup without him.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• The only disappointment in this round of dishes was a curdled, bland egg drop soup.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• The catch of the day ($18), red snapper, was far better served cured as ceviche than sautéed in a bland blond crust.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Our thoughts: These are more shortbread than sugar cookie: dry and bland and lacking any sweetness.
  — cleveland, 9 July 2021
• Clunky story telling, lazy/bland acting, everyone is just going through the motions.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 July 2021
• Skinless, boneless, chicken breasts have a reputation for being dry and bland.
  — Bon Appétit, 13 July 2021
• So much of hockey broadcasting in the United States in bland, rote, and absent energy and insight.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• Flat video is a bit bland without edits but provides a more flexible starting point for creators with the know-how to apply a creative color grade in the editing room.
  — PCMAG, 12 Sep. 2024
• Their hopefulness—conveyed not in still images or bland DMs but in growing smiles and flirtatious tones—was deeply affecting.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 12 Oct. 2024
• Bread While the refrigerator has been said to help keep bread from molding, the humidity of the fridge draws out the moisture from the bread, leaving you with bland, dry slices.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
• Job candidates often feel awkward when talking about their skills and vacillate between being too aggressive or bland when interviewing.
  — Kim Thompson, Chron, 21 Aug. 2021
• As interesting as the quarterback competition has been throughout camp, the kicker battle has been a little bit bland -- not that the Colts are complaining about it.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2021
• Scientists marked specific areas in the cuttlefishes’ tank with different black and white symbols and fed them a tasty lump of shrimp or a comparatively bland piece of prawn at each location.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
• The telling is too bland, and the stakes don’t feel high enough.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• Though the walls are a bit subdued, nothing about the space is bland.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
• The tasty juices are soaked up by the rice to ensure there's not a single bland bite.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• His first glance was the frown of the man; the second was the bland and sickly smile of the demagogue.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• The color options are rather bland, and the area where the backplate meets the bumper feels a tad sharp.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 1 Oct. 2021
• But it was served lukewarm, and even for Skyline, the broth was thin and bland.
  — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• In the mall the music was a cradle and all the mannikins in the windows wore clothes as bland as puree.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Sahithya Wintrich has one goal in the kitchen: To fight back against bland flavors.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
• The jalapeños were as rubbery and bland as the roasted chicken.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• The sauce didn't have much flavor, and the meatballs tasted too bland.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• The arena opened in 1968, along with a bland new office block known as Two Penn.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024