How to Use bland in a Sentence

bland

adjective
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  • The vegetable soup was rather bland.
  • The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation.
  • What are some easy fixes for bland Mediterranean food at home?
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Go ahead, put a playful new throw pillow on that otherwise bland corner chair.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 June 2021
  • Congee is made of just rice and water and by itself is formidably bland.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2021
  • At all meals, Clemon wrote, the food was bland, unseasoned, and often poorly prepared.
    — Connor Sheets | [email protected], al, 25 June 2021
  • Simply put, salt makes food good and is one of the easiest ways to transform a dish from bland to exciting, but should be doled out with a measured hand.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • This meat-free fare is anything but bland and boring, with oodles of bold flavor and a terrific balance of crunchy and tender textures.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2021
  • But in recent years, the appeal of Gap has plummeted, edged out by e-commerce sites that have made its offerings seem bland rather than just basic.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • Gradually, the ingredients began to change, and the flavors became less bland.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • As soon as the management people start knowing about stuff, everything gets very bland and not really worth doing in my experience.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • Nobu, with its forty-seven locations, is essentially the world’s fanciest chain restaurant, each outpost equally glitzy and equally bland.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
  • Night after night the bland, genial newscasters would read the news in their agreeable baritone voices, and everyone in the country seemed to be sitting on their sofas and nodding their heads.
    — Wallace Shawn, The New Republic, 29 June 2021
  • The wet carne asada burrito ($14.74), slathered in queso, appears big, bland and beige, but then BOOM!
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 17 June 2021
  • Yet the month arrived here cloaked in a bland and uninspiring sort of grayness, and a high temperature of 78 degrees, three below our average for June 1.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • His assignment was to give to the bland, utilitarian Pier 36 space — before this a home to athletic events — more aesthetic interest.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • And the cultural iterations of Charlie Brown and his gang began to seem increasingly bland and conventional.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 2 June 2021
  • The telling is too bland, and the stakes don’t feel high enough.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Though the walls are a bit subdued, nothing about the space is bland.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • The tasty juices are soaked up by the rice to ensure there's not a single bland bite.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
  • His first glance was the frown of the man; the second was the bland and sickly smile of the demagogue.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The lunch menu sushi hand rolls were bland and overpowered by the heavy sauce.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • The color options are rather bland, and the area where the backplate meets the bumper feels a tad sharp.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But it was served lukewarm, and even for Skyline, the broth was thin and bland.
    — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • In the mall the music was a cradle and all the mannikins in the windows wore clothes as bland as puree.
    — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Sahithya Wintrich has one goal in the kitchen: To fight back against bland flavors.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This bland bird badly needs a bath in one of the many sauces Popeyes offers.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • The jalapeños were as rubbery and bland as the roasted chicken.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The sauce didn't have much flavor, and the meatballs tasted too bland.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Flat video is a bit bland without edits but provides a more flexible starting point for creators with the know-how to apply a creative color grade in the editing room.
    — PCMAG, 12 Sep. 2024

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