Sentence examples for thin dull from inspiring English sources

If Bella had to write an autobiography — what a thin, dull volume that would be — he would be her ghostwriter.

Thin, dull metal belts and wing-shaped necklaces helped to convey the sense of strength he wanted, but it was amply clear in the energetic feel of the clothes.

There's a layer of beautiful vocals and swelling sound, and above that, a thin dull roar of the dying.

It's thin, dull, repetitive stuff that's immediately more enjoyable if you add friends, but as that statement applies to life in general I don't think it really represents a free pass.

Fruit a globose berry, 1.2 1.5 cm in diameter, black, the pericarp thin, dull and matte; fruiting pedicels 1.6 2 cm long, ca. 7 mm in diameter at the apex with the apex markedly more dilated, apparently nodding in fruit; fruiting calyx lobes to 5 mm, woody, the margins paler.

If you cannot open the clams with your fingers, glide a thin, dull knife in between the shell halves and cut around the perimeter until loosened.

The reviews, in Coward's own summary, described the play as "dull, amusing, thin, slight, tedious, witty and brittle"; it ran to excellent houses for a year.

A traditional soup made with lemon grass and coconut milk, it was thin and dull.

Their epidermises reflected such habits: aquatic amphibians developed a thin, slimy, dull skin densely covered with mucous glands; terrestrial forms acquired a thicker, horny, heavily pigmented skin dotted with poison glands.

Wear pale thin and dull coloured lipstick.

Other people use very thin, fine cloth, dull in texture, with cut, not hemmed, edges.