How to Use ho-hum in a Sentence

ho-hum

adjective

• Take a dresser from ho-hum to wow with one of these easy DIY projects.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2023
• So what takes a ho-hum taco to a new level of greatness?
  — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
• The creator trying to stand out in a sea of ho-hum, same-old content.
  — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• With smoky hues like chocolate mauve and ash brown in the lead, the best brunette shades of today aren't ho-hum by any means.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• The Standard hotel line is anything but a ho-hum place to hang your hat.
  — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The bottom of the notebook is a ho-hum affair with two rows of vents along the back of the panel with a larger one in the hinge.
  — PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
• If his numbers are merely ho-hum, will that be a turn-off for teams picking in the top 10?
  — Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• If his numbers are merely ho-hum, will that be a turn-off for teams picking in the top 10?
  — Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• But a made bed can take a room from ho-hum to pulled-together in just a few minutes.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• Food and Drink In a land of ho-hum restaurants, Casa Colina stands out.
  — Kelley Manley, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2024
• In a ho-hum game against the Titans last week, Justin Herbert only threw 18 times.
  — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
• The fiery Jezebel sauce can be the answer to taking a ho-hum buffet to memorable new heights.
  — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2024
• After your orchid plant's flowers have fallen off, you're left with a ho-hum clump of leaves.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025
• After your orchid plant's flowers have fallen off, you're left with a ho-hum clump of leaves.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025
• Step aside ho-hum sandwiches and Thermos soups—there are some new meal options in town.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 28 July 2023
• Even so, Australia has a knack for coming out of a ho-hum kind of day nicely, and the team is in second place, three points back from Canada.
  — Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
• Even so, Australia has a knack for coming out of a ho-hum kind of day nicely, and the team is in second place, three points back from Canada.
  — Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
• There’s politics and political art, which, like all art, can fall into categories of the good, the bad, the ho-hum, and the heinous. ...
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Oct. 2024
• Mainly the problem that is feeding a ho-hum human body day after day.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
• Williams is so good again, even better than last season, that there is sometimes a ho-hum feeling watching him.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• After the ho-hum first, the B’s had to contend with their ongoing problems in the second period.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
• Stand mixers can turn ho-hum cookies that take hours to mix into quick bake-sale-worthy creations.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• Add to that the fact that buying physical goods has become a ho-hum exercise for so many people.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• To much of the pop firmament, this might seem like a ho-hum event, one more online drop indistinguishable from all the others.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
• Sunday was about as ho-hum as a dominant performance could be.
  — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
• The most jaw-dropping, next-level upgrades A lot of times at this show — and in general with consumer tech — year-to-year upgrades are super ho-hum.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
• However, the weekly claims numbers have been fairly ho-hum.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
• Smooth hydrangea forms mounds of medium green foliage and about this time of year, each stem ends in a flat mass of mostly ho-hum, greenish flowers with a few showier white flowers around the edge.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2024
• Derik Queen opened his Maryland men’s basketball career with a ho-hum 22 points and 20 rebounds.
  — Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
• With one fell swoop, the wizards of Wolfsburg have transformed the ho-hum VW Scirocco from an also-ran into a supercoupe to be reckoned with.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023