MUNDANE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for MUNDANE, such as:

1. Initially, the work was pretty mundane.
2. It was hard to return to mundane matters after such excitement.
3. To transcend is to go beyond and penetrate the mundane into a deeper truth or trust.
4. Unlike other players, the CEO and Secretariat are less interested in mundane benefits than in value.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUNDANE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mundane
 a.  belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary
Classic Sentence:
1  In the lee of the stonily mature trio Carol proceeded to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
3  The distinction between the poor teachings of mundane science and our sacred all-embracing teaching is clear to me.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
4  Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence:
1  It's an attitude that turns the mundane into some-thing rather more interesting and exciting.
2  It was hard to return to mundane matters after such excitement.
3  Initially, the work was pretty mundane.
4  Unlike other players, the CEO and Secretariat are less interested in mundane benefits than in value.
5  To transcend is to go beyond and penetrate the mundane into a deeper truth or trust.