Example Sentences

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“The moment is so incredibly bad and unbelievably wacky that one simply has to laugh in disbelief. But that’s far preferable to the rest of the film, which is mind-numbingly dull.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2023

In recent years increasing numbers of physicists and cosmologists have begun to suspect—often against their most fervent hopes—that our entire universe may be but one member of a mind-numbingly huge ensemble of universes: a multiverse.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2023

"The actual content of the interview was mind-numbingly boring," stated The Independent's Holly Baxter, before Morgan pointed out on Twitter that her newspaper had simultaneously written up multiple news lines from his exchange with Trump.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2022

The Just Run mode, which lets you use the treadmill without any classes, is OK but mind-numbingly boring.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

Every mortgage bond came with its own mind-numbingly tedious 130-page prospectus.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis