Example Sentences

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Meeting that with procedural boringness may have worked five years ago.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2021

Our expanding cosmos is headed toward heat death, a state of terminal boringness, in which nothing ever happens.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2020

I don’t have any other memories of the party, which may speak to its boringness.

From The Verge • Oct. 22, 2019

Their self-titled debut in 2004 – which finished ahead of Keane’s MOR Hopes & Fears as that year’s biggest-selling album in the UK – was like a vomit of rainbow-coloured glitter across beige-pop’s boringness.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2017

Then I stared at the wall beside my bed thinking the blank boringness of it would lull me to sleep, but no.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon