Humdrum used in a sentence, 10 examples

Humdrum in a sentence as a noun

Lena had been a medical doctor and rather well known in a limited, humdrum way.

The protection from snooping government for law abiders isn't for humdrum people like you.

It's as though they'd rather talk about real things rather than mundane money-related humdrum topics.

This makes sense because, except for the most humdrum operations jobs, you never really know what your employees will have to work on in the future.

The problem is that unions as a group have won the big battles - the right to have a life and to have a wage to support it - and there's only relatively humdrum stuff left.

Humdrum in a sentence as an adjective

It's really "just" another "humdrum" implication of quantum mechanics.

Then, several years down the road when the contract dollars started coming in, he'd need a much bigger group of average programmers to handle all the humdrum tasks of moving the right bits to the right places, supporting the right formats and protocols, etc.

I will add that the camaraderie most people miss when they leave the service is from losing the daily interaction with people whom relationships were formed through adversity, even just the humdrum daily adversity of military life.

The criminal breaks the monotony and humdrum security of bourgeois life, he thereby insures it against stagnation, and he arouses that excitement and restlessness without which even the spur of competition would be blunted.

By now, the anxiety-producing thoughts have by and large come to the surface and evaporated, rendering those avoidance behaviors unnecessary.- Bouts of depression, while just as intense and severe when the come, now last a day or two as opposed to many weeks.- Artistic and aesthetic sensibilities are more acute.- Willingness to accept the humdrum rhythms of life with more equanimity.- Left defense industry and now write software for a medical device company.- Grew out of a romantic fantasy about what "enlightenment" might mean, and am now content with the the "meat and potatoes" of living life in the present moment.

Humdrum definitions

noun

the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

10 example sentences using humdrum.

Humdrum used in a sentence

Humdrum in a sentence as a noun

Humdrum in a sentence as an adjective

Humdrum definitions