How to Use bland in a Sentence

bland

adjective

• The vegetable soup was rather bland.
• The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation.
• The tasty juices are soaked up by the rice to ensure there's not a single bland bite.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• In the mall the music was a cradle and all the mannikins in the windows wore clothes as bland as puree.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Sahithya Wintrich has one goal in the kitchen: To fight back against bland flavors.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
• The sauce didn't have much flavor, and the meatballs tasted too bland.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• The arena opened in 1968, along with a bland new office block known as Two Penn.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• One the other hand, it's long been perceived as, well, bland.
  — Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 17 May 2023
• For the guy who wants to look anything but bland, check out these gorgeous loafers.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
• This baking method will result in chip-like skin and dry and bland flesh.
  — Ali Slagle, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2023
• The chemistry of the lead actresses mostly makes up for a bland script.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• But the face on my screen—my face—felt off somehow: muted, bland.
  — Charlotte Shane, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
• Thanx Read More maryadams just ok, bland, added extra onions & used sausage.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sadly, the veggies were not enough to mask the pale, slightly salty and bland chicken breast.
  — cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
• That bland description does the drake wood duck’s plumage no justice at all.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
• Which might explain why the show came out so bland and unfocused.
  — Time, 7 Oct. 2022
• From a bland, uninspiring look to having fresh threads and a sleek design to show off.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Viewed narrowly, our lives would be, well, much more bland.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
• There’s no bland ‘diet food’ here: just nourishing whole foods, with a few treats thrown in.
  — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 30 Dec. 2022
• Feeling kind of bad for Sam, though, is a pretty bland emotional state in which to leave us.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• In the photo, Trump confronts the camera in front of a bland gray backdrop, his eyes meeting the lens in an intense glare.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• So how did the nation’s color selections get to be so bland?
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Many would argue that a potato by itself is, well, bland.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Best Gifts Under $10 Affordable gifts by no means have to be bland.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 20 Oct. 2022
• The crunch of the sesame and seaweed is not only addictive on its own, but works well to dress up any bland monotone meal.
  — Zoe Dubno, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2023
• But doing away with the spices completely yields a somewhat bland pumpkin cake that doesn’t hit the same notes.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• In these last couple of decades, our pop stars have become very polite and well-behaved and bland.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• Cauliflower used to be seen as a bland, mushy vegetable served as a side dish.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2022
• The website is extremely clean and mostly black and white, which is easy to use but somewhat bland.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Everything is sold out or looks too bland at your local big chain store.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024