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

“Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family organizations.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

A 90-minute ramble revealed L.A.’s familiar extremes: big houses alongside dingbats, the shock of the unexpected coinciding with numbing dullness.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

For this was no place one came to by chance; even in the dullness of his thoughts he began to see that.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin