banality

Example Sentences

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Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

Madeleine Thien has penned an all-too-human novel that explores themes of collaboration and resistance, exile and community, and the banality of living in “interesting times.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

Everett speaks like a woman who recognizes the banality of the alternative.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

And so we’re back to the whole lesson that we never seem to learn about how the banality of evil is real.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2024

He is unaccustomed to the banality of domestic flights, the narrow cabin, the single bag he’s packed, small enough to stow overhead.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri