How to Use mundane in a Sentence

mundane

adjective
  • They lead a pretty mundane life.
  • The columns were written for the mundane reasons of the present.
    New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • If this sounds mundane, it must be stressed that is not the case.
    Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2018
  • Smell alerts the brain to the mundane, like dirty clothes, and the risky, like spoiled food.
    New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The tape might be mundane, but the primer and flat white paint used on the chassis is not.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Most of it reads like a chronicle of a mundane work trip.
    Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
  • Ava never went to a place where such things were mundane.
    Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2013
  • Both the utterly sublime and the mundane were side by side.
    New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The bond between them was far too strong for a mundane jam session like that.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But the truck can go back and forth all day, the most mundane job that drivers don't want to do.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • There’s so much laughter despite the mundane part of this work.
    Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
  • People have very strong feelings about the most mundane things.
    Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Plenty of things can cause your heart to pick up the pace, and many of them are pretty mundane.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Many of those moments and places are mundane and obscure.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Each and every day, what might feel mundane to these guys...
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The messages, many sent late at night, veer from the mundane to the personal.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • To call it tinny is to insult the fine if mundane qualities of tin.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
  • These bets range from the mundane, like which team will score first, to the highly obscure.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The Sims has long allowed its fans to indulge in the most mundane of fantasies.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Many of the mundane activities his brain had been wired to do needed to be rewired.
    The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Viewed one way, some this stuff can feel pretty mundane.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • Having fun is great, but a mundane matter might bring you back down to earth.
    Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Azor had written the lyrics, which were fairly mundane.
    Dinitia Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • Most of these spaces are more mundane than pinball halls, of course.
    Bill Lascher, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
  • In the past decade, the great body hair debate has shifted, as the sight of it becomes more and more mundane.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This can be done during tasks as mundane as washing the dishes.
    Rachel Trent, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Think about what this would look like for a mundane purchase, say, a gallon of milk.
    Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Even if the views are mundane — look at the U-Haul parking lot across the street!
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2021
  • And then there was this, which almost seemed mundane in contrast.
    Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 10 June 2018
  • Somewhere in the night a train whistle droned like a banshee heralding our mundane doom.
    Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020

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