How to Use mundane in a Sentence
mundane
adjective
- They lead a pretty mundane life.
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Smell alerts the brain to the mundane, like dirty clothes, and the risky, like spoiled food.
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New York Times,
2 Jan. 2021
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If this sounds mundane, it must be stressed that is not the case.
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Patrick Shanley,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 May 2018
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The columns were written for the mundane reasons of the present.
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New York Times,
28 July 2021
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The tape might be mundane, but the primer and flat white paint used on the chassis is not.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
11 Oct. 2018
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Ditching the grandiose for the mundane, Frog and Toad share a love story for the ages.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2024
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Even if the views are mundane — look at the U-Haul parking lot across the street!
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John King,
San Francisco Chronicle,
5 Sep. 2021
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But the truck can go back and forth all day, the most mundane job that drivers don't want to do.
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Jacopo Prisco,
CNN,
14 July 2021
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The messages, many sent late at night, veer from the mundane to the personal.
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Tom Vanden Brook,
USA TODAY,
31 Aug. 2017
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Most of it reads like a chronicle of a mundane work trip.
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Ginger Thompson,
ProPublica,
16 July 2019
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These bets range from the mundane, like which team will score first, to the highly obscure.
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Grayson Quay,
The Week,
14 Feb. 2022
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Ava never went to a place where such things were mundane.
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Southern Living,
27 Dec. 2013
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Plenty of things can cause your heart to pick up the pace, and many of them are pretty mundane.
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Zahra Barnes,
SELF,
27 Mar. 2020
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In the past decade, the great body hair debate has shifted, as the sight of it becomes more and more mundane.
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Loren Savini,
Allure,
23 Apr. 2018
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There’s so much laughter despite the mundane part of this work.
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Shannon Stirone,
Longreads,
29 Oct. 2020
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Both the utterly sublime and the mundane were side by side.
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New York Times,
6 Oct. 2022
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The Sims has long allowed its fans to indulge in the most mundane of fantasies.
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Megan Farokhmanesh,
The Verge,
18 Oct. 2018
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The bond between them was far too strong for a mundane jam session like that.
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Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
31 Aug. 2023
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The views are of the mundane work — meetings, desk work, answering phones.
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Siddhartha Mitter,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2024
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Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane.
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Jack Nicas Victor Moriyama,
New York Times,
2 June 2024
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Each and every day, what might feel mundane to these guys...
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Tim Sullivan,
The Courier-Journal,
21 Oct. 2021
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Think about what this would look like for a mundane purchase, say, a gallon of milk.
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Jenny Gold,
Kaiser Health News,
14 Sep. 2017
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Having fun is great, but a mundane matter might bring you back down to earth.
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Chicago Tribune,
17 Sep. 2022
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People have very strong feelings about the most mundane things.
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Kelly O'Sullivan,
Country Living,
15 Aug. 2017
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The strange appeal of ‘Burgers,’ both the show and the film, is precisely in its mix of the mundane and the pointless (or, to be kinder, the absurd).
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Michael O'Sullivan,
Anchorage Daily News,
27 Dec. 2022
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Most of these spaces are more mundane than pinball halls, of course.
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Bill Lascher,
Fortune,
21 Mar. 2020
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Viewed one way, some this stuff can feel pretty mundane.
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Casey Newton,
The Verge,
12 May 2023
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Many of those moments and places are mundane and obscure.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
24 Apr. 2022
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Even acts with great careers worthy of the Rock Hall can be somewhat mundane.
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Troy Smith,
Axios,
17 Oct. 2024
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And that was really potent for me as a [way] of thinking about the mundane and how much of our lives are structured around it.
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Dean Baquet,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2024
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