(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.
Monotony
Definition:
(n.) A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
(n.) Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet MAO activity is associated with certain personality traits, with low activity linked to traits such as impulsiveness, sensation-seeking and avoidance of monotony, all possible expressions of low central serotonergic activity.
(2) Recreational runners frequently vary their training to avoid monotony and improve endurance capacity.
(3) The monotony factor was responsible for typical changes in sleep function (difficulty involved in falling asleep, disturbed continuity of sleep as a process, decline in the depth, etc.
(4) In a US largely characterised by suburban monotony, these are assets that could help regenerate Baltimore back to its extraordinary potential.
(5) The evaluation of the occupational monotony and stress points out to certain age differences.
(6) Equal rights to monotony, monogamy and vol-au-vents is just not my idea of modernisation or equality, because marriage is not an institution based on equality.
(7) Infralow oscillations were studied of psychophysiological parameters appearing at one-minute wave range at different levels of human operator's nervous system in conditions of monotony.
(8) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
(9) It provides handcontrolled fundamental frequency which enables the user to approximate natural intonation patterns, thus overcoming the monotony of speech with conventional aids.
(10) They will also have decreasing attention to current activities and usually avoid or lose interest in structured or repetitive activities (complaining of boredom and monotony).
(11) The following main characteristics of the motor activity are indicated as risk factors of the occupational diseases--number of movements per a working shift, their velocity and duration, movements needing strength and movements with a big volume, pronounced motor monotony.
(12) Monaco Grand Prix: F1 – as it happened | Michael Butler Read more It looked like yet another Monotony Grand Prix as Hamilton sprinted away from his pole position to build up what looked like an impregnable advantage.
(13) Twelve truck drivers operated the train function safety circuit (SIFA), a paced secondary task used as a job monitor on German railways engines, under laboratory conditions of extreme monotony, in a comparison with 12 train drivers who were well acquainted with SIFA.
(14) Polymorphic forms of the DNA duplex with long stretches of structural monotony are known.
(15) Quantitative analysis of speech production and the language examination when the disorder was at its worst and after recovery allowed the documentation of the slowing and monotony of speech, in the absence of aphasic disturbance in comprehension and expression.
(16) It was not just that critics deplored the concept, the stagecraft and O'Toole's own playing (monotony was frequently mentioned).
(17) Unpleasant circumstances such as an offensive environment, the monotony of work, poor qualifications or unsatisfactory work generally influence the persistence of pain.
(18) The monotony and the bulkiness of the traditional diet, the often sparse number of meals as well as periodic deteriorations of the food situation ("hungry season") all contributes to make the nutritional situation precarious.
(19) Many fundamental processes such as the role of conditioning in the development of satiety, and the effects of monotony and variety, have important implications for the treatment of obesity which have yet to be explored.
(20) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.