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adjective

bland

lacking taste or flavor or tang

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Six example sentences with bland, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her soup stayed bland until she added the anchovy paste, and then nobody could stop eating it.

    Cooking

  • Airline food is bland by design, since cabin pressure dulls the palate and heavy seasoning would land wrong.

    Travel

  • Two weeks of boiled chicken and rice left him ready to trade a medal for anything less bland.

    Fitness

  • Hospital food is bland for a reason, since salt and spice are cut for patients on strict diets.

    Medicine

  • Astronauts report that food tastes bland in orbit, as fluid shifts to the head and dulls the nose.

    Science

  • The point guard eats a bland bowl of rice and steamed fish before every game, saving flavor for the flight home.

    Basketball

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