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• The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom.From the entry dish up
• Mom-and-pop diners are disappearing from American streets and being replaced by bland corporate giants.From the entry mom-and-pop
• As for the legions of paintings, they veer between the bland and bizarre.2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The…. From the entry veer
• The most important therapeutic measure is to control the child's hydration with bland, nonacetic fluids.2020, Michael G. Newman, Gwendolyn Essex, Lory Laughter, Newman and Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist, page 276. From the entry nonacetic
• Instead of hearts on sleeves, expect caution, philosophical doubt, a bland smile.2019, Andrew Beatty, “Java: Emotions Analyzed”, in Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry hearts on sleeves
• Bland; day-boarders were allocated to a dame at whose house they took their meals.2016, David Noy, “Parents, Childhood, Youth (1739–1760)”, in Dr Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk, Newcastle upon…. From the entry dame
• Some might describe yellow squash as bland but others would say not.2014, Deborah Madison, The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry squashy
• Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist.2013 September 14, Steven Kurutz, “Caught in the Hipster Trap”, in The New York Times. From the entry baggy
• Emanuel’s version was already blander — and later rephrasings have inevitably become more so.2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times. From the entry rephrasing
• The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture.2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts, page 46. From the entry cashew
• Kugel recipes run the gamut from sweet to salty, soft to crisp, bland to sharp.1988, “Evening and Morning Meals: Menu Plan”, in The Taste of Shabbos: The Complete Sabbath Cookbook, 2nd edition, Jerusalem, Israel: Aish…. From the entry kugel
• How are writers going to write books if language is going bland on them?"1988, Howard Engel, chapter 6, in A Victim Must Be Found, Markham, Ont.: Viking, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry Humphrey
• Fran Austin (as Mary, Reno's compliant wife) is bland and motivationless.1988 February 5, Tom Boeker, “They Sure Are Strange in New York”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry motivationless
• He was as bland on the inside as he was on the outside.1987, Joan Lowery Nixon, The Dark and Deadly Pool, page 26. From the entry yellow wax bean
• Fast-forward a decade, and this muted visual language — which came to be known as millennial blanding — has receded.2026 June 17, Callie Holtermann, “The Blobby, Drippy Maximalist Design You’re Seeing Everywhere”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry blanding
• If you enjoy bland foods, snaps for you.2023, Danna Van Noy, Living Gluten-Free For Dummies, page 20. From the entry snaps for you
• It was just so bland and monotonous.2023 June 28, u/KickballJamal, Reddit, r/AskReddit. From the entry I choose violence
• But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry quiet luxury
• Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry autocorrect
• He had recently moved to a cul-de-sac where every house has stucco walls, a ceramic tile roof, and bland xeriscaping.2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 02 Dec 2017. From the entry xeriscaping
• The producers do their best to edit bland events into comic minibites, but those mostly look lame and forced.2008 June 14, Alessandra Stanley, “The Latest Candidates for an Image Makeover”, in New York Times. From the entry minibite
• Mehh - yet another pretty but bland FPS.2007 July 2, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, “First Play, Want, Bin of July”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet). From the entry mehh
• The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist.2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 30. From the entry jockless
• Fairchildy adj. used to describe any relatively bland, tasteless food (from the veganness of the food prepared at Fairchild Co-op).2003 summer, Katie Hubbard, “Word of Mouth”, in Kelly Viancourt, editor, Oberlin Alumni Magazine, volume 99, number 1, Oberlin, Oh.…. From the entry veganness
• As we putter along in our little crapmobile, I can hear Mom's thoughts as clearly as the newscaster's bland voice.1999, Graham McNamee, Hate you. From the entry crapmobile
• But successive governments have met these mounting challenges with either hard-hearted austerity (from the Conservatives) or bland bromides for change (from Labour).2026 June 22, Mark Sappenfield, “Starmer is out, but is Britain done with its prime minister churn?”, in The Christian Science Monitor…. From the entry bromide
• The dubu, which has the potential to be bland on its own, has the pork to add substance and the kimchi to add flavor.2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN. From the entry saute
• The rest of the day is a write-off and any dinner plans will have to be scrapped as I return to eating bland samefoods.2023, Fern Brady, Strong Female Character, unnumbered page. From the entry samefood
• In any case, contemporary palates—raised on flawless, tart Granny Smiths or Red Deliciouses—would have deemed them inedible, either impossibly sour or garbage-y bland.2016, Steven Grasse, “Cider”, in Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History, New York, N.Y.: Abrams Image, →ISBN. From the entry red delicious
• Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300. From the entry Malmö
• With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture.2009 January 7, Ken Johnson, “It Is What It Is: Portraits of the Human Figure”, in New York Times. From the entry tortoiselike
• What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past.1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2019. From the entry nuevo
• I think it's disgraceful that in the nation's capital gay people are represented by such a bland, non-confrontational piece of toilet paper.1990 August 18, John Zeh, quoting Larry Kramer, “AIDS Activists Zap D.C. Paper”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 3. From the entry gutlessness
• Every part of the duck was brought in at one time or another, and every part was too bland and fatty for our tastes.1990, Roy Blount (Jr.), First Hubby, page 215. From the entry Beijing duck
• A lot of people have made the very valid point that it is a bit rich for a Britisher to criticise Indian food as being bland!2020 October 9, Sudha G Tilak, quoting Edward Anderson, “Row over 'insult' to Indian dish Kamala Harris likes”, in BBC News. From the entry Britisher
• It is because you have stopped the idiot sorting of laundry by whites and colors, and over time they will all migrate to this bland but safe middle ground.2019 September 12, Gene Weingarten, “Gene Weingarten: Who said you have to sort the silverware, anyway?”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry foo-foo
• For all patients, a bland diet was demanded and a series of preoperative preparations, such as any necessary application of antibiotics or cholaneresis treatments, were adopted.2015 February, De‑Kang Gao, Shao‑Hua Wei, Wei Li, Jie Ren, Xiao‑Ming Ma, Chun‑Wei Gu, Hao‑Rong Wu, “Totally laparoscopic…. From the entry cholaneresis

Meaning of bland

1. adjective Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
2. adjective Lacking in taste or flavor.
3. adjective Lacking in vigor.

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Questions about bland in a sentence

How do you use bland in a sentence?

Bland is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “The coffee was bland.”

What is a short sentence with bland?

“a bland diet”

What does bland mean?

Bland means having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.