Sentence examples for merely a humdrum from inspiring English sources

Or is this merely a humdrum tale?

The rain came down but, with apologies to Morrissey, this was anything but a humdrum town.

Inside the walls it's just a humdrum town, going about its business.

This time, the company managed to improve only to a humdrum 10.3 percent return on equity.

Copernicus delivered the first heavy strike, demoting Earth to just another planet circling a humdrum star.

But it was followed by a humdrum plate of stewed lamb.

The rest of the year, forsythia is at best a humdrum bush, green but otherwise nondescript.

He could turn a humdrum gathering into a party just by showing up.

Instead it had a humdrum retail/mortgage operation which turned out to be anything but.

A humdrum task, you say?

It is a humdrum hotel overlooking the city's jail.