How to Use humdrum in a Sentence

humdrum

adjective

• 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
• But some of this humdrum new work received a boost in live form.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
• Today, even the most humdrum Hampton Inn room can be opened with Hilton’s app.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Not all inventions lose their shimmer right away, but the ones that change the world won’t take long to seem humdrum.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
• 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
• These kids may not always be comfortable in the humdrum, ordinary world, but the film is full of hope.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Make a point of imbuing your day-to-day humdrum routine with sprinkles of whimsy and fun.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024
• The best period dramas whisk viewers away to times and places that feel a world apart from the humdrum blandness of modern life: Corsets!
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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
• These are the humdrum and human experiences of a man who spent his time simply pottering about.
  — Will Ainsley, SPIN, 24 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024