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Six example sentences with monotonous, each labelled with its topic.
Nine hours of flat farmland made the drive monotonous until the mountains finally appeared somewhere after the second fuel stop.
Travel
Rowing indoors is monotonous, which is why most people set the screen to a race rather than a timer.
Fitness
A week of the same lentil stew grows monotonous, so she started changing the spice on alternate evenings.
Cooking
The drone underneath the track is deliberately monotonous, one note held for four minutes while everything else changes.
Music
Farming the same field for hours grows monotonous, so the developers added a rare seed that appears only at dusk.
Gaming
Attention drifts fastest during monotonous tasks, which is why lookouts and screen monitors rotate every twenty minutes.
Psychology
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