dullness

Example Sentences

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The manufacturing hub, which anchors the region that is home to auto giant Toyota, is Japan’s fourth most-populous city and, according to a decade-old newspaper poll that still stings here, number one in dullness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Excessive coloring of the hair to lighten the color can cause damage to the hair shaft leading to dullness, increased hair fragility, and breakage.

From National Geographic • Aug. 22, 2023

“There was just a weird dullness on defense.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Uline's core business — selling boxes — is so boring there's an entire Simpsons bit devoted to its dullness.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2022

“Maybe it’s that. She’s all mixed up with the dullness, and I can’t remember much except the last picture drawn in fire.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck