‘she said she wouldn’t be dull and lonely’

‘the voice of a teacher talking to a rather dull child’

‘It was alleged that slower children were occasionally told to stay away from school on the inspection day and that some dull children were refused admittance to schools altogether.’

‘If I should accede one day to Heaven, it must be there as it is here, except that I will be rid of my dull senses and my heavy bones.’

‘In doing so, mankind has become callous and his senses have become dull to the ultimate pleasure this relationship would offer.’

‘shares closed weaker after a day of dull trading’

‘It has to be said, this was a horrendously dull process.’

‘when cutting hard rock the edge soon became dull’

‘Flick out the stinger by lifting it with a fingernail or scrape it off using the edge of a dull knife.’

‘there was a dull pain in his lower jaw’

‘His thigh muscles pulsed with dull pain from the unaccustomed effort of his one-and-a-half mile ride.’

‘a dull thud of hooves’

‘Yet for her it was only a dull sound, ringing in the back of her mind like some long-forgotten memory.’

‘next morning dawned dull’

‘I dislike with intensity days like today, it was dull, overcast and intermittently pouring with rain and my mood was only marginally better.’

‘his face glowed in the dull lamplight’

‘his black hair looked dull’

‘your diet doesn’t have to be dull and boring’

‘Granted, three of the bits work well, but the rest are so banal, so dull, so lifeless, that one has to wonder how this thing ever got released.’

‘time dulls the memory’

‘Albert’s eyes dulled a little’