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How to use monotony in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Monotony means tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. Example: “Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.”

Examples of monotony by meaning

nounTedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

  • Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 1, in Through the Magic Door, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2011

More sentences with monotony

  • It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry montage
  • Lord, lord, Carrados, the tragic monotony of your elderly professional nonentity!1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry lord
  • The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad.”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 141. From the entry deadly
  • Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony.2022, Julia Glass, Vigil Harbor, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry molasses
  • The river snaked through the forest, and they travelled on hour after hour, through an unbreaking monotony of green.2014, William King, Ocean of Fear: Book Six of the Kormak Saga. From the entry unbreaking
  • Perhaps this explains so much of the monotony.1985, Robert Peters, The Peters Second Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry selaphobia
  • All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 356. From the entry aliment
  • Duochrome monotony of gray weather recalling Cage's Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds of silence, making Julian hungry to see something with a feeling attached.2005, James Greve, Stumble Out On Deck, page 441. From the entry duochrome
  • Shortly it is to be shorn of its standardization, its monotony of same acts and faces and same whangs on the sitspot.1929, Life, page 26. From the entry sitspot
  • If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.1910, P. G. Wodehouse, Misunderstood. From the entry small talk
  • But also some human properties are important for the decision man or machine: the control and supervisory task of a monitive system are characterized by monotony.2013, Heinz Schmidtke, Ergonomic Data for Equipment Design, page 49. From the entry monitive

Meaning of monotony

  1. noun Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
  2. noun The property of a monotonic function.
  3. noun The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Full definition of monotony

Questions about monotony in a sentence

How do you use monotony in a sentence?
Monotony is used as a noun. For example: “Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.”
What is a short sentence with monotony?
“Perhaps this explains so much of the monotony.”
What does monotony mean?
Monotony means tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

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