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Example sentences for "dullest"

Lexicographically close words:
dullard; dullards; dulle; dulled; duller; dulling; dullness; dulls; dully; dulness
  1. It has fashioned life for us, and the dullest mind that plods and counts and dies is ministered to and enriched by it.

  2. There was a sweet enchantment in the air to which the dullest could not be indifferent.

  3. We went as far out of the town as we could get, to where there were fields, which in spring and summer still looked green, and through the remains of a little wood, pleasant even in the dullest season.

  4. It was the dullest afternoon I had ever seen, raining, raining steadily, the sky all gloomy no-colour, duller even than gray.

  5. His heart was always tender for the sick, and it was plain to the dullest eye that she was a sick woman.

  6. But sometimes when things were at their dullest she would suddenly send up a little sparkling rocket that lit the mental horizon and thrilled the surroundings with colour.

  7. Then he went on reading with a malicious calmness, as though the matter were the dullest trifle: Item: one dozen pairs of gloves for mourners.

  8. Or was it only the perception, sometimes given to the dullest mind, of the futility of goodness, the futility of all?

  9. The great philosopher Newton was one of the dullest scholars in school when he was twelve years old.

  10. The dullest scholar in this room may distinguish himself by application and dint of perseverance, while the brightest may fail of success, by wasting his time and trusting to his genius.

  11. But as to the rest, we are willing to abide by the issue of that one comparison, left to the very dullest sensibility, for the decision of the total question at issue.

  12. With what perfect ease and fluency do some of the dullest men in existence toss over and discuss the most elaborate of all works!

  13. Yonder is he who bears a nearer resemblance to you: the dullest have observed it.

  14. What appears the dullest may contribute most to our genius; what is most gloomy may soften the seeds and relax the fibres of gaiety.

  15. One advantage this metre assuredly possesses; the dullest reader cannot distort it into discord.

  16. The dullest of his children will at once perceive the duty, and the source from which he derives confidence in performing it.

  17. Any teacher, or parent indeed, may by a single experiment upon the very dullest of his pupils who can read, be satisfied on the point.

  18. Now it must be obvious, that any one of these explanations may be made familiar to the dullest child that can read; and if this can be done, the principle may immediately be brought into exercise.

  19. His son in law was the dullest of companions.

  20. Vienna was, and I suppose is, the dullest Court in the whole world.

  21. It was the dullest play in the world; but the scenery and effects were splendid.

  22. He will invite the dullest of them to stay with him for quite prolonged visits, and without a murmur set apart a suite of chapters for their accommodation.

  23. This needs no farther to be enlarged; the dullest wit may conceive it.

  24. At Ulubrae" was equivalent to saying in the dullest corner of the world, or anywhere.

  25. Marat It is impossible to do Three diff'rent kinds of things at once; A fact that must be patent to The brain-pan of the dullest dunce; Yet Marat somehow never knew it, And died in an attempt to do it.

  26. They are very often picked out of the rank and file of the dullest Academy students and contrapuntists, who are incapable of understanding anything original, and therefore are the persons most unfitted to form a correct estimate of genius.

  27. His face was like a skull, his voice scarce recognisable; the dullest of men and officers (it seemed) must have remarked that tell-tale countenance and broken utterance.

  28. The boat used by the negresses on such occasions, was the Dido, a perfectly safe craft in moderate weather, but she was just the dullest sailer of all those owned by the colony.

  29. As a last objection, the Reef had no great extent, and no variety, the eye taking it all in at a glance, while the crater was its sole relief against the dullest monotony.

  30. We had one very good looking man on board ship, and he was the dullest man to talk to on board.

  31. Why, Deennugghur is one of the dullest little stations on this side of India!

  32. Of all dull pastimes, the dullest seems to us sporting in a preserve; and we believe that we share that feeling with the Grand Signior.

  33. Well, thou art the dullest husband, thou art never to be provoked.

  34. Nor were these days on the great lakes by any means the dullest of the journey, Cerf Volant, Tigre, Cariboo, and Muskeymote gave ample occupation to their driver.

  35. His face would have betrayed his uneasiness to the dullest onlooker.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dullest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.