Sample Sentences for
bland
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    The soup was too bland and needed more spices to bring out the flavor.
    bland = lacking flavor
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    They were not bland, and people answered.  (source)
    bland = uninteresting
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    Her stomach shuddered, but she kept her voice bland.  (source)
    bland = uninterestingly steady (lacking stimulating characteristics)
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    T.J.'s face was totally bland, as if nothing at all had happened.†  (source)
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    If Atticus could blandly introduce me to Boo Radley at a time like this, well—that was Atticus.  (source)
    blandly = in a manner that is uninteresting
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    Rachel Levy, head of the center's publicity department, thought blandness and a trace of obfuscation would be the best approach, but Hannah overruled her.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    In the blandest tones, he told me that he was going to build a small house for me, in a secluded place, four miles away from the town.†  (source)
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    Those "unnatural" feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.†  (source)
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    The man turned, exposing a bland round face, darkly tanned.†  (source)
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    "It's just another place to live," Mr. Hart said blandly, "middle-class, some upper."  (source)
    blandly = in a manner that is dull or uninteresting
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    For she had undergone her own educating at a time of nerves, blandness and retreat among not only her fellow students but also most of the visible structure around and ahead of them, this having been a national reflex to certain pathologies in high places only death had had the power to cure, and this Berkeley was like no somnolent Siwash out of her own past at all, but more akin to those Far Eastern or Latin American universities you read about, those autonomous culture media where the most beloved of folklores may be brought into doubt, cataclysmic of dissents voiced, suicidal of commitments chosen—the sort that bring governments down.†  (source)
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    On my nights to cook I made the blandest things I could think of: broiled white fish and mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, to give our taste buds a chance to grow back.†  (source)
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    When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places.†  (source)
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