Sentence examples for dull sort of from inspiring English sources

Down my right arm I feel a tingling, a numbness, sometimes a dull, sort of muffled torment, or else a shapeless, confusing pain.

Third in quality is the 1999 Potato Barn Red ($15), delivering a spicy, smoky aroma, but a dull, sort of burnt flavor.

Mr Sternbach's job was to find a compound just as good, or better, with just enough differences to get round Wallace's patent.To Mr Sternbach, tinkering with someone else's drug was a dull sort of job.

As columnist Terry Glavin wrote in Toronto's conservative National Post this month: "All of this makes for the dullest, most boring sort of country, comparatively and politically speaking.

That must have been where I got the idea that half my face was a dull, mild sort of color, almost mousy, a furry shadow.

Among the towering intellectuals of his era, Trevor-Roper was perhaps the least dull — a sort of P. G. Wodehouse character with an avenging, steel-trap mind.

I don't remember when I was first told my grandparents had died of Spanish flu, but it was a dull grey sort of fact, nothing like the story about their gorgeous wooden house burning down and the piano being carried out on to the lawn.

It can simulate the Braille bumps with quick or dull vibrations — sort of a cross between braille and Morse code.

You would have to be a very dull and earthbound sort of person not to be intrigued by this.

Under normal light the charred paper looks "a shiny black" says Obbink, while "the ink is a dull black and sort of iridesces".

This was so dull I was sort of bummed, and I called Olle up a couple of weeks later to ask how he was, and this is what he told me.