How to Use uneventful in a Sentence

uneventful

adjective
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  • The flight home was uneventful.
  • The first hour and a half of the flight seem to have been uneventful.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The first moments of the game’s life were plain and uneventful.
    — Sam White, GQ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The crowd loudly boos at the close of an uneventful round.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 12 May 2018
  • The 2023 race was uneventful, Alleman said, but this year that was not the case.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • He was discharged, and the rest of the weekend was uneventful.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The usual trip up the Suez Canal amounts to about a dozen uneventful hours along 120 placid miles.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The driver apologized and the rest of the ride was uneventful.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The driver apologized, and the rest of the ride was uneventful.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The Lions and the Chiefs kicked things off in a rather uneventful first matchup that ended 0-0.
    — Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This phase of her life has been very quiet and uneventful in a good way.
    — Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2021
  • The rest of the week will be uneventful, with clear, cool nights, and sunny, pleasant days.
    — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • About 90% of the time, Light says, this testing is uneventful.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • One of the younger Marines asked if the whole deployment would be so uneventful.
    — New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The pair make out and thus ends their sweet, still largely uneventful date.
    — Joyce Chen, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019
  • The last 20 minutes of the body-cam footage are fairly uneventful — more doors are opened and rooms searched.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • The events leading up to the flights were uneventful, the documents show.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2020
  • The rest of the trip was uneventful, with the Castors hauling five dozen lobsters, but no more sacks of drugs.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The lunch special also comes with a side of peas that were uneventful.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
  • In other words, don’t sweat the uneventful draft night.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 22 June 2018
  • When the trial started on April 12, the line was uneventful.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Until that point in the route, the parade had been pleasant and uneventful.
    — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Though Kyle and Nellie are okay, the trip to the hospital isn't uneventful.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The old man has never been in such demand at any point in his long, uneventful life.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But that would make for a fairly short, uneventful film.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2019
  • The trip, at about 6:15 a.m. from Ashmont to Fields Corner, had been uneventful.
    — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
  • The trip from his bus stop to his house was largely uneventful, part and parcel of his childhood.
    — Kalley Huang, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The model and the auto magnate Ford’s life has rarely been uneventful.
    — Jane Musgrave, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The uneventful arrest of the mogul at New York's Park Hyatt hotel was hardly a surprise.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • At halftime, the score is 0-0 after an overall uneventful first half.
    — Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 15 July 2024

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