adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
life
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It makes us feel better about our own humdrum lives that too much fun is so clearly bad for the health.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a humdrum job
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Going to night school might improve your chances of getting out of that humdrum job.
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Occasional holidays abroad were the only things that brightened up her otherwise humdrum life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How I wish all this was over and I could get back to my humdrum routine.
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It could come in the wastes of the night, or at the most humdrum moments of the day.
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Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane.
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Such excitement was absent during a first half that was more humdrum than humdinger.
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Their lives were, and are, humdrum .
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They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.
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You should still spot-check for humdrum words and phrases.
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Zeinab, whatever else she might be, was definitely not humdrum .