Sentence examples for dull shift from inspiring English sources

I spend a mind-numbingly dull shift folding towels to help maintain the illusion that the place is still a fully functioning department store, rather than a shambolic jumble sale.

I began walking down the pathways alone, and as I got closer to the glacier, I heard the dull rumbling of shifting ice.

Since mid-November, however, there has been a palpable shift away from this dull techno-talk.

In the July 2001 issue of Pediatrics, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that, based on audiometric testing of 5,249 children as part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, an estimated 12.5% of American children have noise-induced hearing threshold shifts—or dulled hearing in one or both ears.

Beginning with a toccata for 12 car horns, the music constantly shifts its style and is never dull.

The expanses of dull vinyl and plastic, the cheap knobs and shifts, the unimaginative layouts are a far cry from the stripped-down masculinity of the original muscle cars.

Because that shifts your mind from subconscious sparks to dull dictation.

The hospital atmosphere lends itself to flirtatious exchanges, the medical professionals explained, as long shifts or hours in surgery can grow dull. .

This gives the rivalry with Feyenoord, of Rotterdam, an unsettling undercurrent of anti-Semitism — something that Kuper connects to a distressing shift in Dutch public life from a rather "dull" liberalism toward xenophobia and anger.

People fall over themselves to complain that what the Middletons do is dull, bland and a preserve of the privileged – but it shifts units at an alarming rate.

The industry's shift to digital and streaming content hasn't dulled the quality of box sets available.