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Six example sentences with humdrum, each labelled with its topic.
Touring sounds glamorous, but most of it is the humdrum of soundchecks, bus seats, and vending machine dinners.
Music
After forty hours of gathering ore, the humdrum finally beat me and I uninstalled the survival game.
Gaming
She escaped the humdrum of quarterly reports by moving to the field office in Nairobi.
Business
The humdrum of lab work, pipetting the same solution into the same plates every week, produces a single graph a year.
Science
Television never shows the humdrum of legal practice, the hours of reading leases and checking dates in a filing.
Law
A month abroad broke the humdrum of her commute, and she came home determined to change jobs.
Travel
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