How To Use Humdrum In A Sentence
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But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
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He sets all of this action in a kind of unnamed anywhere, a mildly bizarro world of wacky mini-mart customers, humdrum garden apartments and seething ennui.
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Save for the occasional inspired moniker, they tend to be humdrum offerings.
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For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings.
Lore of Proserpine
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They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.
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Whole artillery units had to be diverted to this humdrum task.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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And then, trust the Japanese to make an opera out of what could have been a humdrum reading session with a reader, a reading lamp, and a group of people waiting for the promise to be redeemed.
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Their dinner party chit-chat concerned the humdrum topic of house prices.
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What were you reading when I came to take you away from your usually boring, humdrum life for a time?
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Second: Amid the vertigo-inducing swing of telecom and tech stocks at the cusp of this century, a certain "humdrum" investor, Berkshire Hathaway sage Warren Buffett maintained his plays in such bland sectors as insulation, carpeting and mobile homes via acquisitions like Johns Manville, Shaw Industries and Clayton Homes, respectively.
Barrick Gold Alum Thompson Joins Rinker Group
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He turned his (rather humdrum) domestic life into symphonies and operas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It happened that way every day - get up, go to work, come back, sleep - and sometimes she wished something would happen to break the humdrum routine.
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Will anyone be doing the humdrum business of minding the shop?
Times, Sunday Times
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When Canadians are on the road, an astounding 86 per cent choose to listen to music to beat the highway humdrum.
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A Liverpudlian housewife is freed from her humdrum existence when a Greek holiday offers her the chance to experience the good life.
The Sun
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We lead such a humdrum life/existence.
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Judt may call this project "humdrum" but I see it as the only way forward.
'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
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Still, it's not just the humdrum reality of cats that puts me off the whole petting café concept.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are you stuck in a rut, longing to be creative but unable to break free from the humdrum routine of your daily job?
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The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
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As a consequence, the city is reduced to humdrum of brick and mortar breeding environmental and health hazards while strangulating human existence.
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Nobody should patronise a club and suggest that they should be happy with a humdrum existence outside the elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well.
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This is the simple, humdrum re-enactment of a scene that happens thousands of times a day across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'd seen good marriages and bad marriages, but yours wasn't going to be one of those humdrum ones, or tedious ones, or ‘bad’ ones.
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it was too much temperament that made them turn from the commonplace and humdrum to find relief in the lying and fantastic sureties of John
Chapter 21
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Yes, that's a lot of boilerplate sitcom zaniness, but the show frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work.
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Their suburban Boston clients envisioned their basement home theater as a place to escape from the humdrum of daily life.
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They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
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The middle ground may be humdrum, but when Tetra Splendour aim high, they score big - raw, powerful songs filled with the feel of a brooding landscape.
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This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sanctuary needed more humdrum fowl, more farmyard ducks and geese.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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But now I'm older and popularity is less of an issue and I've developed a unique (ish) identity to go with my humdrum name.
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When she wants to let her hair down it doesn't feel right somehow, as if she's going partying for the first time after years of humdrum married life and turns up feeling awkward and overdressed.
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It would be nice to go beyond the usual everyday humdrum routine, I should think.
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We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life.
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Kayb's sweet and tangy marinade is just what raw cauliflower needs to transform it from a humdrum crudité to a zippy accompaniment for barbecue, or even a simple hors d'oeuvre all of its own.
Food52's Best Cauliflower Recipes
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This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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a humdrum existence; all work and no play
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One of the advantages of the summer recess is that it gives us politicians the opportunity to take a step back from the humdrum of party politics and time to think, listen and talk to others outside politics, as well as to learn.
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We need an awful lot of humdrum miracles and we need them with increasing urgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus uncle and niece glided imperceptibly into that mode of life which is called humdrum, and which some wise people consider the best mode of getting through existence.
The Grey Lady
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Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell.
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This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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What made the 1973 film stand out was that it set its demonic possession in a humdrum modern-day context.
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It gives such a poignancy to my usually humdrum life.
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She'd gone about her morning with its usual humdrum routine.
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He is never what we call humdrum; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off. '
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.
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Most of the work is fairly humdrum.
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They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life.
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The mandate of heaven can be embodied in such humdrum entities as building codes.
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Such experiences did not encourage her to persist with the humdrum routine of schooling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly.
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There was effort aplenty but little of beauty to colour the humdrum.
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Austere surroundings and a humdrum card, but the country's – perhaps the world's – most famous jockey is buzzing.
Frankie Dettori at Newmarket ready for the few that have got away
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While it lasts it prevents us from making shoes, writing books, from engaging in either the humdrum routine of life or in making crucial decisions.
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The high seas harbour a host of job opportunities for those driven by wanderlust and the desire for a life away from the humdrum.
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Just a humdrum boring evening, she thought and sighed.
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The sitcom frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work.
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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?
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This humdrum tool of grandmother's thrifty cooking is resurrected with an amazing amount of glamour.
Times, Sunday Times
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What made the 1973 film stand out was that it set its demonic possession in a humdrum modern-day context.
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Their dinner party chit-chat concerned the humdrum topic of house prices.
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They had humdrum jobs and predictable progeny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Superficially, the humdrum of life continues, with routine largely unruffled.
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As played by Jack Nicholson, he's a newly retired insurance actuary whose wife - in a stale, humdrum marriage - suddenly drops dead.
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We also know well the restaurants to avoid, in particular the over-priced, under serviced wannabee high class eateries founded by gringos who charge North American prices for food that wants greater ambition than dispensing North American fare to the hungry, the humdrum and the unitiated.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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Oftentimes, Drew just couldn't be bothered with the daily humdrum of people buzzing along in her life, (like a hive of visionless bees).
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In other towns innumerable counterparts lived similar, humdrum, unexciting lives.
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Will anyone be doing the humdrum business of minding the shop?
Times, Sunday Times
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Last but not least, students'creativity tends to repressed due to the humdrum and dull homework.
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The going through other people's dreams thing is starting to get a little tired Paprika, etc and I haven't even gotten to the part with dreams--it's just kind of humdrum and bleh and I am bored to tears.
Currently reading, iteration the second
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A quadrille is a very humdrum performance nowadays to those who know nothing so delightful as the wild monotony of the round dance.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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He could not get up everyday and face the daily humdrum life of a high school English teacher.
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Trinitytide which is symbolical of what one might call the humdrum of religious life, the day in day out sticking to it, make a resolution never to say mechanically _The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore.
The Altar Steps
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How does that warrant officer in a nuclear submarine put up with the humdrum nine-to-five?
Times, Sunday Times
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This was inevitably followed by a return to the humdrum reality of everyday life.
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Sometimes he makes brief statements; other times he just smiles, as a sort of square-jawed presence on an otherwise humdrum tableau.
Sen. John Thune says he could offer GOP more than just a fresh face in 2012
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But even before they did, we felt it: the humdrum monotony of the one-day game has grated for a while now.
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This is the humdrum reality of being a film star.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, it's not just the humdrum reality of cats that puts me off the whole petting café concept.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was eleven years old now, alone in this little village that was surrounded by the humdrum of the daily activities of the city.
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The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
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The rage was always there, existing beneath humdrum lives like a complacent monster unacquainted with its own power.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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All people involved in horses are at the same time the wildest romantics and the world 's most humdrum and practical people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having said that, however, there is something in the humdrum routine of everyday life in different cold and gray places around the world that fascinates me.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn.
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We lead such a humdrum life/existence.
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Their lives consist of the humdrum activities of everyday existence.
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We need an awful lot of humdrum miracles and we need them with increasing urgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The operator of said pristine automobile meanwhile contains a face of humdrum, and of tranquility, as if this conflagrant expulsion of hot gases is one of normality and typical of the internal combustion engine.
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At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below.
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I recommend hyperbole to fiction writers in part because so many manuscripts are drab, flat, humdrum, unstimulating, safe.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Bigness
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners.
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he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners
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But if you are already in a relationship, you can rescue it from its humdrum routine.
The Sun
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His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion.
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In some cases, the performances were careless, humdrum or lacked lustre.
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I saw my sport as a release from the everyday humdrum of life and as a sort of freedom from those things.
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Now one might think that Wizards spend the majority of their time learning how to cast spells or mixing up potions and elixirs, but the actual fact is, Wizards in the great Schools spend most of their time doing humdrum scribe work.
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Kayb's sweet and tangy marinade is just what raw cauliflower needs to transform it from a humdrum crudité to a zippy accompaniment for barbecue, or even a simple hors d'oeuvre all of its own.
Food52's Best Cauliflower Recipes
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All around the world, similarly humdrum experiences were being recorded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Equally telling are the humdrum details of contemporary espionage.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can win tickets to this new Australian movie about a man who escapes the humdrum of his suburban existence by floating away on a chair attached to helium balloons and finds new directions in life.
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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.
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I find a lot of the people I see everyday very humdrum and old beyond their years.
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The sprinkling of sugar on top is probably to mask the humdrum blandness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just watching them and thinking that there had to be something more in this life for all of us than the everyday humdrum.
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Once the honeymoon's over and you settle into the humdrum pattern of everyday life, it's easy to get bored.
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We lead such a humdrum life/existence.
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not that there was anything humdrum about this beautifully upscale collection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their lives consist of the humdrum activities of everyday existence.
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How does that warrant officer in a nuclear submarine put up with the humdrum nine-to-five?
Times, Sunday Times
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But overall there is simply more note-spinning and humdrum toing and froing than real inspiration.
Times, Sunday Times
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I envisioned it as a humdrum story of back-page caliber with a headline that read, "Drama Club Congratulated.
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Filled with their limited aspirations, men in shades and baseball hats peer into the sky at the battery-driven model planes which allow them to escape the humdrum; to soar above the everyday.
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The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis.
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We do not desire a system of education which picks out for promotion minds gifted with certain kinds of capacity and stimulates them with the offer of material rewards, while the so-called humdrum remainder are left, with their latent talents undiscovered and undeveloped.
Progress and History
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He is never what we call humdrum; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off.’
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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I still dream about the blissful day I expelled her, and the happy humdrum months that followed.
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Why go back to that bleak weather and humdrum British nine to five?
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Whole artillery units had to be diverted to this humdrum task.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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The homiletic magazines omitted idealism and imagination; but perhaps those qualities are so common in what some people are pleased to call our humdrum modern business life that they were taken for granted.
The Rules of the Game
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Their lives consist of the humdrum activities of everyday existence.
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The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
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According to the paper, there is talk that Scolari will earn about R145 000 per shift, while the likely lads more used to calling humdrum PSL action earn between R3 000 and R5 000.
News24 Top Stories
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This was a humdrum Sunday afternoon in a provincial Italian town where the church bells are audible from the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used to feel almost trapped by the normal, everyday, humdrum life.
