dullness

Example Sentences

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It feels like a petty grievance—yet another example of greatness being conflated with dullness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

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

He was a young man, a Mr. Stone by name, with what Dr. Finch called the greatest talent for dullness he had ever seen in a man on the near side of fifty.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee