(n.) A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a recovering graduate of an institution that played host to a similar bunch of charmers, all I can say is, so far, so humdrum.
(2) Gardiner, of course, is not Dominic Jones or Samuel Rhodes; the reality is both more interesting and more humdrum.
(3) Her only digression from a rather set, humdrum routine came when in 1975 she divorced her husband and then two years later remarried him.
(4) The match took a while to warm up, with Mark Noble’s sweet strike against the underside of the bar the best of a humdrum first half.
(5) The rain came down but, with apologies to Morrissey, this was anything but a humdrum town.
(6) The learned judge, now back at the more humdrum business of the court of appeal, may be reflecting on the advice of whoever it was who first advised against picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
(7) It was both surreal and humdrum at the same time, and that's when I realised just how odd a period we had lived through."
(8) Mom always thought such things were middle-class, but I longed for the humdrum of middle-class.
(9) Man of the Match - Cristiano Ronaldo His excitement and joy were happily contagious in a humdrum match.
(10) She’s free of humdrum routines like school and homework, and is completely self-sufficient.
(11) This humdrum victory for Manchester United has a considerable impact on the league table with Sir Alex Ferguson's team, inspired by Cristiano Ronaldo, now four points clear of Chelsea and bristling with a wicked sense of pleasure about the vulnerability of their main challengers.
(12) As he said in an interview in the Times on Saturday: "All Tories at whatever level, even a humdrum municipal politician like me, want a Conservative government back in 2015."
(13) Fall of the 'Fake Sheikh': how the tables turned on Mazher Mahmood Read more It must be especially galling that his downfall came about after one of his more humdrum sting operations, involving the singer and TV personality Tulisa Contostavlos.
(14) At the England squad announcement, which took place at the Luton headquarters of their sponsors Vauxhall, Roy Hodgson was asked if his team was more like a humdrum family saloon or a sports car.
(15) Explorers, cartographers and geographical pioneers from Mercator to Palin are presumably humdrum intellectual backmarkers and the study of authors such as Dickens or Eliot, Günter Grass or Alain-Fournier a form of spiritual imprisonment?"
(16) His earliest surviving work, Rien que les heures (1926), took its cue from the surrealist notion that, viewed in the appropriate way, the most humdrum districts of a modern city such as Paris could be as exotic as anything shot in the Arctic or the Pacific.
(17) Gervais always believed you should write what you know, so when he sat down to create The Office with Stephen Merchant, he set it in the moribund Home Counties where he grew up, in a humdrum working environment not unlike the one where he’d spent the best part of a decade.
(18) As a linguist, he confessed himself to be humdrum, but wherever the English language prevailed, he could feel at home.
(19) At their best, soaps find drama in the everyday and the mark of Wainwright’s work is that, however dramatic, there is a respect for the drudgery and humdrum nature of much of life.
(20) Everton came close to extending their lead five minutes from the break, when a good shot by Séamus Coleman was matched by a diving save from Guzan, yet those highlights apart the first half was a fairly humdrum affair.
Lethargic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lethargical
Example Sentences:
(1) Neurological examination revealed a lethargic man with good orientation to three spheres.
(2) These pigs also seemed more lethargic than controls and appeared sedated.
(3) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
(4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
(5) Only miracidia classified as "active" or "slow" were capable of penetration, a capacity they retained for about 17 hours at 19 degrees C. Miracidia that were "lethargic" as a result of low temperature, old age or ultra-violet radiation lost their infective capacity.
(6) The colchicine-treated rats were lethargic and hypothermic as compared to controls.
(7) For the most part, however, this was a night when some familiar old failings could be detected in terms of England looking lethargic in possession.
(8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
(9) Considered to be intoxicated from the acute effects of sniffing toluene or methylene chloride, the patient remained lethargic and ataxic despite removal from exposure and administration of supplemental oxygen.
(10) Upon presentation to the ED approximately 2.5 hr post-ingestion, the child was very lethargic and respirations were depressed.
(11) The child remained lethargic for several hours but otherwise had a normal neurological examination.
(12) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
(13) A comfortable win was secured early here with Eddie Howe’s team, rightly lauded for their own achievements this season and previously unbeaten away this calendar year, made to look uncharacteristically timid, even lethargic at times, as Spurs swarmed all over them.
(14) Case 1: A 48-year-old woman, who complained of severe headache and vomiting on Feb. 10th, 1972, gradually became lethargic.
(15) Infected dogs were anorectic and lethargic and developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, including petechia, ecchymosis, edema, and necrosis.
(16) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
(17) Ataxia was not prominent in animals affected with transmissible mink encephalopathy; these animals gradually became more and more lethargic.
(18) On this day, though, the atmosphere became increasingly lethargic as the game wound down and Chelsea went out of the cup.
(19) This was one of their most convincing performances of the season, although it must be said that an uncharacteristically lethargic Everton contributed to their own downfall.
(20) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.