How To Use Monotony In A Sentence

There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine.
[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety. Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
He stood there, as calm as ever, wearing only his neat black trousers and his scuffed boots, a few tendrils of plum-coloured hair tracing a colourful pattern against the smooth monotony of his skin.
And the answer came: she was like a break in the monotony, like a resident jester.
_Coeteris paribus_ -- all the other usual conditions being observed, such as silence, the fixed gaze, monotony of attention -- let the galvanic disk be put aside, and in its place let a sixpence or a fourpenny-piece be employed, or indeed any similar small object on which the eyes of the patient must remain fixed for the usual space of time, and we will promise that the experiments thus made shall be equally successful with those in which the so-called galvanic disk is employed. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
In fact, it's likely they may be tired and dreading the monotony of a step routine.
This year's card would relieve the monotony.
This was evident, too, in the terrible monotony of the subjects studied and the very limited variety of the sources used.
But there was nothing but the unrelieved monotony of dormant fields, no significant growth yet awakened by the spring. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
The monotony of life at sea is not confined to the jobs people do. Times, Sunday Times
Through that month and the three following the liquid items follow with alarming monotony, only separated here and there by entries of "tee" and sugar and certain yards of "cotting" and "scanes" of silk for Sarah. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
He suggested a card game to relieve the monotony of the journey.
In the reaction against the monotony of formalism and of that deadly conventionalism which is the peril of every accepted method in religion, art, education, or politics, men are ready to welcome any revolt, however extravagant. Essays on Work and Culture
They watch football to lose themselves in the game and take a break from the everyday monotony of their lives.
The routine was the same every day, with nothing to break/relieve the monotony.
This course gives the hardcore basics for surviving through the monotony of the undergraduate frosh existence.
Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
The whole work was played without a break, and took two and a half hours, yet there was no suspicion of monotony, while the quickness and noiselessness with which the elaborate set scenes were changed was little short of marvellous.
Break the monotony of a long journey with frequent stops.
For all over-rhythmical writing is at once felt to be affected and finical and wholly lacking in passion owing to the monotony of its superficial polish. Archive 2010-03-01
Occasionally breakdown to break the monotony of a long journey with frequent stops.
His account of his experiences as a common soldier are riveting, and they magnificently capture the monotony of endless drilling, guard duty, and camp chores that consumed most of his days.
Cook's findings are presented in boringly linear sequence, fact following fact with mind-numbing monotony.
The drive to Atlanta was long and tedious, with nothing but the occasional patch of trees with the requisite kudzu to break the monotony. BLINDSIGHTED
Yet there was another agreeable alternative to rugby which promised to allay my fear of monotony. Seminary Boy
It will break the daily monotony of riding on cramped and airless trains.
The Tallahassee cop decided to play a little gag to break the monotony of a training mission.
The tedious monotony of his job did not deter him from being innovative.
Christians have only one spouse. This is called monotony.
Dirk had attempted to cast scon on her preferring monotony of pay over - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fortunately we had brought books with us, and we relieved the monotony by observing the habits of a pair of "kastooras," a hawk, and a brace of chikor at intervals, but it was truly a tedious chase. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilization to a featureless monotony. Greenmantle
The monotony soon has your interest waning. The Sun
His marriage had brought a slight mitigation of the monotony of his existence.
This will help them acquire useful skills without the monotony and tediousness of a regular school session.
Cultural singularity cannot prevail in a commercial world because monotony conflicts with the consumer's natural curiosity.
It broke up the monotony of the water and it was interesting the way the boat appeared to nod as it rode the waves.
Monotony soon becomes a bore to anyone, so the music teacher should guard against the class period becoming mere routine.
So short are the new trees that not a leaf breaks the angular monotony of gabled roof lines.
The monotony soon has your interest waning. The Sun
To break the monotony, we hopped along the road in a westerly direction to pay a visit to a large furniture and furnishings store.
Metallic fabrics broke the monotony of a restrained colour palette dominated by greys and blush pink.
Hence hypotheses normally refer to some qualitative properties of the functions that allegedly emerge from the formalism, such as convexity or monotony. Neoclassical economic theory
On the sea far ahead a frothing whitecap broke the monotony of color, a flyingfish jumped out of the water to glisten for a moment in the sun, loose seaweed floated on the surface, to change in some degree the intense blue. Greener Than You Think
As he headed out to his next class, he hoped the test scores, when they came out, would give him a break from the normal monotony of his life.
Regressing into a trance-like state as I threw myself back into the mindless world of typing numbers, I began to feel a little woozy at the monotony of it all.
To these I would add the frenetic monotony of motor racing commentary, and the nasal shrieking of the gee-gees callers.
Monotony - always a danger in these monocultural recitals - rarely looked likely. Times, Sunday Times
He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene.
It expresses the garrulity of the sea, and is a pleasant break in the monotony of the life. Chapter 25
Both readers and writers get into a certain 'swing' which turns to monotony and sing-song in reading and to excessive uniformity of sentence length and structure in writing -- what is called a jog-trot style. The Principles of English Versification
‘You did,’ Alysia accused, her tone faltering from its usual emotionless monotony.
Still, while locked up, the inmates look for something to relieve the boredom and monotony of prison life.
The unadulterated ecstasy of before is hardly a memory, and the extremeness of his mood swings is now a dullness that consumes him in unchanging monotony.
The main feature of the regime for unconvicted prisoners was its sheer blinding monotony. The Prisons We Deserve
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.
ill from the monotony of his suffering
But when they or their rivals, silverweed, burdock, false ragweed, thistles, gumweed, and others usurp the landscape and seem to choke up the very earth and the very air with ceaseless monotony and repetition, then they become an offence to the eye and a reproach to those who tolerate them. Over Prairie Trails
Rita is an outsider, a teenage misfit who sticks out all the more next to the monotony of the lives around her.
The merit of his _Maximes_ as examples of style -- a style which may be described as lapidary -- is incomparable; it is impossible to say more, or to say it more adequately, in little; but one wearies in the end of the monotony of an idea unalterably applied, of unqualified brilliance, of unrelieved concision; we anticipate our surprise, and its purpose is defeated. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony. The Principles of English Versification
Thinking, maybe, that it would break the monotony, the tedious spell of the highway.
But when seen in the narrow precincts of a temple court, from whose floor they shot up into the blue sky overhead, surrounded by great columns and lofty gates, breaking the monotony of the heavy masses of masonry of which the Egyptian temples were composed, and acting the part which campanili and spires perform in modern churches, a standard of comparison was thus furnished which greatly enhanced their magnitude. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
His marriage had brought a slight mitigation of the monotony of his existence.
The monotony of swimming lengths calms my mind. Times, Sunday Times
But instead of resorting to the sort of supermarket canapés that are served with inevitable monotony at so many parties, why not opt for home-made nibbles, which also work out far cheaper.
Yet there was another agreeable alternative to rugby which promised to allay my fear of monotony. Seminary Boy
But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love. Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss
My life had settled into the monotony of school, schoolwork, and school tension; nothing else.
But one day all this admirable monotony came to an end quite adventitiously, and events came treading on each other's heels. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
The sweetness of the vocal harmonies is tempered by the rawness of the guitar and the unremitting monotony of the drum patterns.
She wanted to escape the monotony of her everyday life.
We may lay oor accoont wi' meetin' wi' occasional adventures an' mischanters to vary the monotony o' oor earthly pilgrimage.
Varying the instrumental accompaniment can help avoid musical monotony.
The maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false.
The monotony of the ranch eat into her heart hour by hour , year by year.
In the middle of the night we parted on the summit of the pass, and I gave them a good backshish -- not so much for the service they had rendered me as for relieving for a few hours the monotony of the journey. Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
She breaks the monotony of ironing, cooking and dressing and undressing her husband by using red lipstick, a red apron, but the wearing down process finally takes its toll.
There are times when all of these moments seem like just yesterday, and all of the intervening days and moments have sped by in flurry of sunburns, visa applications, bus journeys, road trips, languages studied and occasional monotony. ¡Que Viva Sucre! « Wanderings
Here , two-dimensionality may imply Feng Bin's critical attitude toward the monotony of urban life.
Large ornate metal gates broke the monotony of the fencing, featuring the crest of a rampant goat and ox, and supported by two pillars crowned by identical statues of rampant elephants bearing arms.
My cold dark place is where my every action or thought is like swimming in molasses and monotony rules supreme. A Cold Dark Place - Gregg Olsen
Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
A night on the town may help to break the monotony of the week.
The laid-back tone of the show is the same as ever: Big Hollywood events are sparsely interspersed with the monotony of the quotidian even if the quotidian is a high roller's. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The routine was the same every day, with nothing to break/relieve the monotony.
Oh that an abrupt scaur, or a strip of flaming desert, or something salient and brilliant, would break in, however discordantly, upon this monotony of green! Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
We see them dreaming of the splendours of imperialist Russia, but get very little sense of the monotony they wish to escape.
Their high energy and simplicity make them easy to absorb and enjoy, but also bring them to the brink of monotony.
he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work
Standing motionless fifty paces from the little storm-beaten cabin that represented Law at this loneliest outpost on the American continent, he looked like a carven thing of dun-gray rock, with a dun-gray world over his head and on all sides of him, broken only in its terrific monotony of deathlike sameness by the darker gloom of the sky and the whiter and ghostlier gloom that hung over the ice-fields. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail
Monotony was a cardinal sin for Victorian architects, just as it is the predominant defining characteristic of modern architecture.
It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome. The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
Women are peculiarly fitted to further such a combination — first, from their greater tendency to mingle affection and imagination with passion, and thus subtilize it into sentiment; and next, from that dread of what overtaxes their intellectual energies, either by difficulty, or monotony, which gives them an instinctive fondness for lightness of treatment and airiness of expression, thus making them cut short all prolixity and reject all heaviness. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Festivities at Christmas, Easter, and May Day, at the end of ploughing and the completion of harvest, relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor.
John Milton threw open whole new vistas inexhaustible possibilities that promised to ward off monotony forever.
The secret to maintaining this balance over the long haul is to avoid letting moderation turn into monotony.
For modern acoustic guitar-wielding crooners, monotony lurks quickly between hushed major-chord strums.
Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony. Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
It's as though they all decided to babyproof their packaging, sanding down the corners and hard consonants, replacing "complicated" photography with crayon illustrations, including little jokes to break up the monotony of reading their calorific intake info. When familiarity breeds contempt
His marriage had brought a slight mitigation of the monotony of his existence.
The scale is daunting, the monotony unrelieved.
Midsummer vacations are eagerly awaited every year by all students with the sole objective of getting a break from the monotony of studies.
Bored with the monotony of her life, she takes her motor-less moped on short excursions.
By playing with time and synchronicity, repeating events, thoughts, brief moments and experiences, even to the point of monotony, Traynor questions how this would change our perceptions of them.
The beach is vast, uncrowded, with ample space for sunbathing, water sports and safe bathing with just enough gentle surf to ward off monotony.
But instead of resorting to the sort of supermarket canapés that are served with inevitable monotony at so many parties, why not opt for home-made nibbles, which also work out far cheaper.
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
As a result, a sense of mellifluent monotony is achieved and paired with an unmistakable improvisatory quality that characterizes most Greek folk music.
Pierce broke free from the shopping monotony of the holiday season to score 42 points, yank down 14 boards, drain 4 trifectas and swipe 4 balls.
Sometimes, to relieve the monotony, she threw in a four-, six- or even seven-foot line, and her ‘dactyls’ are often amphibrachs or anapaests.
The Japanese seldom interfered with the monotony of life inside the compound. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
Why should your beloved canine doppelgänger be restricted to a life of culinary and sartorial monotony while you dine out, groom obsessively, and gussy yourself up all the livelong day?
The only object of attraction to be seen from the casement was a fine view of the sea; but Ernest had been too long a sojourner on the wild waste of waters, not to have become weary of their monotony, and tired of gazing at what had been so long a familiar object, he turned his attention to the interior of the room. Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire
But even before they did, we felt it: the humdrum monotony of the one-day game has grated for a while now.
The month of February had not helped ease to ease the monotony, with its never-ending gray days and gray, slushy snow.
He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene.
The hero of the affair was an Irishman, named Baker, who relieved the monotony of his work as a master pavior by acting Sir John Falstaff and other parts. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
The mournfully monotonous chirping of the grasshoppers, the call of the landrail, and the cry of the quail did not destroy the stillness of the night, but, on the contrary, gave it an added monotony. The Witch, and other stories
For a day or two this tactic was mildly successful, but eventually even Auster began to droop from the monotony.
Here and there a solitary tree rose to break the gently rolling monotony of the veldt: spiny acacias, sword-leaved dragon trees, emerald-spired lobelias, and thick-fingered, poisonous spurges. Conan of Cimmeria
Monotony was a cardinal sin for Victorian architects, just as it is the predominant defining characteristic of modern architecture.
The sweetness of the vocal harmonies is tempered by the rawness of the guitar and the unremitting monotony of the drum patterns.
Camas as a town was neither interesting nor important; but when one has spent three long weeks communing with nature in her sulkiest and most unamiable mood, even a town without a railroad to its name may serve to relieve the monotony of living. Rowdy of the Cross L
The monotony of camp life set in. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I barely even notice the battle anymore through the deadly monotony.
They broke the monotony of the weary journey with songs and jokes.
Each artist had her dress in a different colour avoiding the monotony of uniformity.
The voice-over narration feels, for the most part, unnecessary and irritating, and the maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false.
A bass voice, she adds, breaks the monotony of a song, bringing variety to the music.
The sickroom atmosphere disturbed her, and she bore the unvarying, anxious monotony of the days with difficulty. THE WHITE DOVE
It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death.
We see them dreaming of the splendours of imperialist Russia, but get very little sense of the monotony they wish to escape.
-- Still another chicken dish that may be used to break the monotony of meals is chicken bechamel, the word bechamel being the name of a sauce invented by Béchamel, who was steward to Louis XIV, Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
A great tasting meal replacement breaks the monotony of your diet.
Heavy lidded by the glare-filled monochromatic monotony of the landscape, soothed by the cool breath of the air-conditioner, we fell asleep.
To avoid monotony, their arrangement is crucial. The Times Literary Supplement
They were perfectly suited to oversee the transition of the monarchy to the modern age, when royal life became a roadshow of monotony and routine. Times, Sunday Times
The routine was the same every day, with nothing to break/relieve the monotony.
Harking back to older ideas , Pavlov suggested that this happened partly in response to monotony.
Once again, contrast piping or tone-on-tone jacquard prints are a great way to break up the monotony of solids.
Monotony came from the self-sufficiency of small farms; since bread was the staple food, most farms grew wheat, along with other cereals like rye, oat, buckwheat, maize and barley.
This wild liberty was a complete avengement for the monotony of my cribbed and cabined home life, ever the same all the year through; but I still lacked the companionship of little boys of my own age, I needed to clash with them, -- and, too, this freedom lasted only a couple of months. The Story of a Child
We want to break the monotony we have had in the past of always waiting for the main show in June.
He is, perhaps, least unsuccessful in his treatment of the Anapaest: the lines do not lack melody, and the natural flexibility of the metre saves them from extreme monotony, though they would have been more successful had he employed the paroemiac line as a solemn and resonant close to the march of the dimeter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
By internal licences -- the mobile cesura, new variations and combinations -- the power of the alexandrine was marvellously enlarged; it lost its monotony and became capable of every achievement; its external restraints were lightened; verse glided into verse as wave overtaking wave. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
If he is far less smooth, he has not the monotony which accompanies and, so to speak, dogs the "skipping octosyllable"; and if he cannot, as Chrestien can, frame a set passage or show-piece, he manages to keep up a diffused interest, and in certain instances -- the story of Rouwènne (Rowena), the Tintagel passage, the speech of Walwain to the Emperor of The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
The football season was in full swing, and the monotony of routine has set in.
Monotony came from the self-sufficiency of small farms; since bread was the staple food, most farms grew wheat, along with other cereals like rye, oat, buckwheat, maize and barley.
The inn – doors are thronged with waiters anxiously looking for the expected arrivals; and the numerous bills which are wafered up in the windows of private houses, intimating that there are beds to let within, give the streets a very animated and cheerful appearance, the wafers being of a great variety of colours, and the monotony of printed inscriptions being relieved by every possible size and style of hand – writing. Sketches by Boz
A couple of moments might make you jump but overall it's a promise the film just can't keep as tension quickly fades into a tone of general monotony.
She wanted to escape the monotony of her everyday life.
She watches television to relieve the monotony of everyday life.
He suggested a card game to relieve the monotony of the journey.
Wood boards break up the monotony of institutional metal railings.
Are the arts condemned, in short, whatever fertility one attributes to their techniques, to the eternal monotony of imitating the first models?
But monotony - the bugaboo of any training program - had reared its ugly head in my direction.
Vice and Virtue feels very flabby indeed, relying as heavily as it does on endless repititions of the same drab themes and riffs, opening with a huge and utterly pointless slab of "suspenseful" and "cinematic" noise, and insistently sprinkling proceedings with dose after dose of monotony and dullness. The Line Of Best Fit
Harling and the notebook were resumed, and lest we should settle down too readily to monotony, a flutter down stream betrayed the whereabouts of the Black Dog, betrayed also a wretched little kelt (about 5 lb.), called in these parts a "kelt grilse. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
All of these methods can break the muscle monotony of traditional routines and shock complacent bodyparts into new gains.
The beach is vast, uncrowded, with ample space for sunbathing, water sports and safe bathing with just enough gentle surf to ward off monotony.
It manages a rather difficult metre (the sixain rhymed _ababcc_ and ending with an Alexandrine) without too much of the monotony which is its special danger. Matthew Arnold
Yet there was another agreeable alternative to rugby which promised to allay my fear of monotony. Seminary Boy
She thought that maybe her mind was making the tone sound different so as to break the monotony but then the sounds began to make sense.
She watches television to relieve the monotony of everyday life.
Intermittently enjoyable segments punctuate the generally underwhelming monotony of this scatological would-be musical.
But the monotony renders it very difficult not to channel-hop or get up to make tea.
Monotony was a cardinal sin for Victorian architects, just as it is the predominant defining characteristic of modern architecture.
But her gifts and attainments were not great enough to take her impersonations out of the rut of conventionality, nor to save her singing from the charge of nervelessness and monotony of color. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
Metallic fabrics broke the monotony of a restrained colour palette dominated by greys and blush pink.
You and me and him," observed the Cap'n, with sullen prod of his thumb in direction of the "gingerbready" tower of the Bickford place rising over the ridge, "marooned in that judges 'stand like penguins on a ledge -- we'll be li'ble to break the monotony. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
How should he draw back — this creature, all sensation, all enjoyment of life, tired of the monotony of existence in a country town, weary of poverty, harassed by enforced continence, impatient of the claustral life of the Rue de Cluny, of toiling without reward? A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
She watches television to relieve the monotony of everyday life.

How To Use Monotony In A Sentence

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