Example Sentences

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Thanks in large part to a typically overworked performance by Mr. White, who is monotonously soulful and tortured, Springsteen comes across as an anti-icon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The entire affair is monotonously one-note and dour, with only a few pops of unintentional humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

She was the monotonously dressed female leader in a male-dominated field who didn’t have time for the distractions that the culture defines as frivolous.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

The boys acquit themselves worse — Gregson’s “Wildly Into the Dark” and Atticus’s “Love Her Wild” are loaded with sensitive-cowboy-mystic peacocking, monotonously mansplaining love to their stardust-kissed muses.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017

Over on the rocks near Hopkins Marine Station the sea lions barked monotonously.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck