All 8 Uses
monotonous
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The Thundering Herd
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- Below the uplands, where the plain began, herds of buffalo dotted the patches and streaked the monotony of the gray vastness.†
Chpt 1 *monotony = lack of variety
- The monotony of the country had been broken up by streams winding away between wooded banks, yet the rolling level seemed to hold generally, viewed from afar.†
Chpt 3
- Days passed—days that dragged on with the interminable riding over the widening prairie—with the monotony of camp tasks, and the relief of oblivion in sleep.†
Chpt 5
- The night insects had begun their incessant song, low, monotonous, plaintive.†
Chpt 10monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Far and wide heaved the broken billows of gray rock, like an immense ragged sea, barren, monotonous, from which the heat veils rose in curtains.†
Chpt 12
- Faint threads of other rivers crossed the gray; and the green hue was welcome contrast to the monotony.†
Chpt 15monotony = lack of variety
- Across the leagues of billowy prairie, so gray and monotonous and lonely, there stood a purple escarpment, remote and calling.†
Chpt 15monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Miles and miles, as gray, as monotonous as a dead sea!†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)