Sentence examples for humdrum thing from inspiring English sources

The package holiday abroad is now a pretty humdrum thing.

'Why is this humdrum thing being compared with that non-humdrum thing?' they invite their listeners to ask, before setting up a kinship between tenor and vehicle which pulls both of them slightly askew.

It's a boring, humdrum thing that you have to do and it's like, "Ugh, I don't want to wash my car".

But today you have to enter one even to do humdrum things like turning on your computer, downloading an album or buying a book online.

Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, has accused the government of "obsessing about handing East Coast over to the private sector" rather than sorting out more humdrum things like rising ticket prices.

All through he did the humdrum things mayors have to do, ensuring that potholes were filled and snow was ploughed.A thin-skinned man, whom officials dreaded upsetting, he created a formidable political machine.

It will have to put aside the dream of turning LA into the Manhattan of the West, and concentrate on humdrum things like improving schools, cutting red tape and making sure there are no more Los Angeles riots.

My blood is ready to boil with fury but an initial scan through her claims appears to reveal only humdrum things such as 300 business cards (green) at £219 and the regular hire of a conference room at £35 an hour – and not even the hint of any moat cleaning.

For an earthy pragmatist like Bergoglio, the ongoing mediation between our peppy hope of heaven and the humdrum things of earth must assuredly be a slippery ball to juggle, especially in view of the fact that belief in a divine Incarnation and in a Resurrection will always lie at the heart of Christianity.

It adds a little bit of an extra dynamic to what your routines are, so it can be quite fun and it's… a little bit challenging, and it just… adds spice to all your humdrum things.

Until recently, this was a fairly humdrum affair.