Sample Sentences for
monotonous
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    The study indicates that traffic accidents from falling asleep increase on long, straight, monotonous roads.
    monotonous = lacking in variety and boring
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    It makes me think of Ben Stein's monotonous lecture in the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
    monotonous = lacking in variety of tone or pitch
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    Nothing is so monotonous as the open sea on a still day.
    monotonous = lacking in variety
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    The monotonous beat of the dragon's wings made his eyes feel heavy.  (source)
    monotonous = lacking in variety (continually sounding the same)
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    The desert, with its endless monotony, put him to dreaming.  (source)
    monotony = lack of variety
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    He got so frantic that he began to thrash from side to side like someone very sick with a high fever who can only monotonously repeat a motion or a word.  (source)
    monotonously = without variety
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    There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse.†  (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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    That close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with sunshine and full of butterflies,—all this attracted him.†  (source)
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    investigative reporting is mostly monotonous work, digging through thousands of words for the one word that doesn't ring true.  (source)
    monotonous = lacking in variety
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    I remember the monotony. Digging foxholes. Slapping mosquitoes. The sun and the heat and the endless paddies.  (source)
    monotony = lack of variety
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    So he continued monotonously to chew tobacco and to increase the length of his amber beard.  (source)
    monotonously = with a lack of variety
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    Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.†  (source)
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    From far back in the flinty hills, the monotonous call of a hoot owl floated down in the silent night.  (source)
    monotonous = lacking in variety
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