DULL in a Sentence

Learn DULL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

233 example sentences for DULL, such as:

1. I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.
2. A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
3. His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
4. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
5. The first half of the game was pretty dull.

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 Meanings and Examples of DULL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dull
 a.  lacking responsiveness or alertness; intellectually weak or obtuse
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  If her visit proved as dull as those in Savannah and Charleston, she would return home in a month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  When she thought of the dull times of the past year, with the days going by one very much like another, life seemed to have quickened to an incredible speed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  But she clung to her dull black dresses and her veil, knowing that if she changed them for colors without waiting several more years, the town would buzz even more than it was already buzzing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  It was a beautiful piece of material, thick and warm and with a dull sheen to it, undoubtedly blockade goods and undoubtedly very expensive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Through it all, the dull far-off thundering persisted, rolling into her ears in waves of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  The dark sky became pink and then dull red, and suddenly above the trees, she saw a huge tongue of flame leap high to the heavens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  She drank slowly but this time the liquid did not burn, only a dull warmth followed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Scarlett stood with her hand on the horse's bridle, a dull feeling at her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of the long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  There were the remains of a few buildings she remembered, roofless brick walls through which the dull daylight shone, glassless windows gaping, chimneys towering lonesomely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  It was raining when she came out of the building and the sky was a dull putty color.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  Its flickering light showed how irreparably scarred and splintered the dull old floor was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
2  All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy.
3  All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
4  She was out of her element in this dull little town.
5  The evidence was read out to the court in a dull monotone.
6  The book was so dull that I didn't finish it.
7  His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
8  After a dull start, it should brighten up later.
9  She wrote dull, respectable articles for the local newspaper.
10  There's always a dull period after the January sales.
11  The first half of the game was pretty dull.
12  A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
13  Hospitals always seem such impersonal places - rows of identical beds in dull grey rooms.
14  I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.