Sentences with word dull

- тупой, бестолковый, тупоумный

dull brain /intelligence/ — тупоумие 
dull curiosity — тупое любопытство 
dull with drinking — отупевший от пьянства 
dull with old age — плохо соображающий от старости 
to be dull at mathematics — туго соображать по математике 
it was dull to have brought him here — было глупо привозить его сюда 

- неповоротливый, тяжёлый, медлительный; вялый

dull style of the team — неизобретательный стиль игры (этой) команды 

- подавленный; печальный, хмурый, невесёлый

dull mood — невесёлое настроение 
I feel dull — у меня плохое настроение 

- унылый, печальный, приводящий в уныние; безрадостный

dull landscape — унылый пейзаж 

- хмурый, пасмурный (о погоде и т. п.)

dull day — пасмурный день 

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- делать тупым, вялым; утомлять
- затуплять, делать тупым (нож и т. п.)
- притуплять; уменьшать

to dull smb.’s senses [pain] — притуплять чьи-л. чувства [боль] 
to dull the edge of appetite [of pleasure] — испортить аппетит [удовольствие] 
to dull the edge of hunger — заглушить голод 
sorrow is dulled with the passage of time — со временем горе притупляется 
time dulls the memory of the war — со временем память о войне стирается 

- делать смутным, неясным; делать тусклым, блёклым
- наводить мат, делать матовым, матировать
- тускнеть; становиться матовым

the varnish dulls — лак тускнеет 

- редк. хмуриться, делаться пасмурным (о погоде)

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It’ll be dull today. 

Сегодня будет пасмурно.

It sounded pretty dull to me. 

Это звучало довольно скучно / глупо для меня.

The pain was dull but persistent. 

Боль была тупая, но постоянная.

The sky was a dull grey now. 

Небо стало тускло-серым.

He drank some alcohol to dull the pain. 

Он выпил немного алкоголя, чтобы притупить / приглушить боль.

She found the work very dull. 

Она считала эту работу очень скучной.

When other people were merry, Mrs. Varden was dull. 

Когда все веселились, миссис Варден грустила.

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The pain has changed to a dull throb.  

The bird is dull brown and gray in colour.  

As marriages go, it certainly wasn’t dull.  

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If you are cool-toned or your skin seems dull, pick a shade that has warm tones, as this will liven up your complexion.

FASHION

Over the past 18 months or so, policy changes have been much less frequent, but the process of decision making has nonetheless not been dull.

BUSINESS

New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani says the plot is «willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that The Casual Vacancy is not only disappointing — it’s dull.»

BOOKS

And there are plenty of dull stretches, including a tacked-on ending, simply to get to the required 90-minute runtime.

MOVIES & TV

Returning to the UK was hard and we struggled to fit back into the dull routine of working 9-5.

TRAVEL

Your students do NOT want to hear about the first Thanksgiving, and they DEFINITELY do NOT want to write dull paragraphs about the things they are thankful for.

EDUCATION

As Cassia’s parents, Jared Harris and Carrie-Anne Moss are particularly dull and unmemorable.

MOVIES & TV

LG claims this allows for a 25-percent brighter display with a 50-percent increase in the contrast and 56-percent improvement to the color accuracy… and you can really tell the difference over what most thought was the LG G3’s rather dull looking display.

TECHNOLOGY

Kids clubs for all ages mean younger guests will never have a dull moment.

TRAVEL

Now they complain that the contest is too dull because the candidates are not tearing each other apart.

POLITICS

In most marriages, if the general relationship is dull, frozen, or hostile, sex will be too.

RELIGION

A worried, serious manager often overlords a dull crew who makes the restaurant seem like Edward Hopper’s «Nighthawks at the Diner,» even during the day.

FOOD & BEVERAGES

Two, from the beginning of the 1960s, ring changes on the same palette of stormy grays, rich browns and dull oranges.

ART

Take your 8-hour course online with us instead of sitting in a dull lecture all day.

INSURANCE

If you feel like your skin is looking dull, the last thing you want to do is scrub extra hard in hopes of turning the lights back on your complexion.

FASHION

Some of the computer generated Orcs especially Azog and the Goblin King feel generic, dull and echo that of a video game or cartoon.

MOVIES & TV

But who wants to cuddle up next to a dull fireplace?

HOUSE & HOME

On the Razer Phone, that ethereal blue maw looked dull and washed out.

TECHNOLOGY

Pictures taken using rear camera of Gionee M7 Power look a bit dull, and I’m not the biggest fan of the colour reproduction.

TECHNOLOGY

On a track that may have been a bit dull after some early-morning rain the time of 1:49 4/5 was respectable.

SPORTS

Most people are turned off by salads, they seem dull and boring, and with so many restaurants serving up salads that just don’t cut it, this is very understandable.

FOOD & BEVERAGES

However, this tropical bridal shower is anything but dull, with the pops of color and creative design elements.

FASHION

The first round is always a bit of a dull affair.

MOVIES & TV

There’s the odd dull cavern, but some of the dungeons look wonderfully inspired: The city of Jurayn is centered around the Sky Temple, a sacred tower that resembles a lily: You’ll clamber through its basement before ascending to the sky above, climbing to the top of the lily as you watch the world recede through its glass floors.

GAMING

While the interior is functional and ergonomic, it looks rather dull — Skoda could have livened it up a little with contrasting materials and trim.

AUTOMOBILES

The camerawork by director Denise Di Novi (the veteran producer making her directing debut) is clumsy and dull, and her art direction is weird and distracting.

MOVIES & TV

The details: This beta-hydroxy mask is a wake-up call for dull, tired skin, adding glow, smoothing texture, and minimizing the appearance of pores.

HEALTH & FITNESS

To avoid making the outfit look dull, a great tip is to use different textures to create an effect.

FASHION

The younger guests will also appreciate the kids club where a choice of fun games and activities are organised during the summer months and regular entertainment is organised for all ages in the evenings ensuring there will never be a dull moment at the resort.

TRAVEL

It can however dull the image slightly, but it certainly cuts out most of the unwanted reflections.

ART

C fibers are small, unmyelinated, and conduct at a speed of 0.5 to 2 m/sec.1 A fibers are sensitive to thermal or mechanical stimulation, causing a sharp, localized pain, while C fibers can be sensitive to thermal, mechanical, or chemical stimuli, causing a dull, aching pain that is more diffuse.1,3

PETS

It’s time to turn your dull everyday commute into an exhilarating and painless drive with one of the best-handling sport sedans on the market.

AUTOMOBILES

The colors too look dull, as many have noted.

TECHNOLOGY

Sadly the championship mode get’s dull quickly as it lacks any sort of progression to keep you motivated.

GAMING

«If you only expand upon existing hardware, it’s dull,» Iwata said at that time.

GAMING

«If your skin is looking dull, time to think about a mask,» says Garnier Consulting Dermatologist Dr. Diane Madfes.

FASHION

Some of the words used to describe them are: nowhere, boring, dreary, obscure, anonymous, deadly, dull, hideous, ugly, nonentity, godforsaken, depressing, derelict.

SPORTS

The only thing I learned from sharing a bathroom with my brother for 15 years was that his razor was not in fact a backup razor for when mine went mysteriously missing or was too dull to hack into my leg hair.

FASHION

And yet, the comical exuberance of its components transcends the dull palette of grey, black and white: a fiercely phallic Viennese sausage looms off the plate, while vaguely testicular onions nestle near its base surrounded by tiny white squirls, which could be grated parmesan, or could be pubic hair; Stevi likes to keep us guessing.

ART

If you want dull in this class, look no further than the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima.

AUTOMOBILES

Hey Aimee… I’m winking already:) I feel as though this season we all need to be brightening up our homes to compensate for all the dull stuff happening around us right now.

HOUSE & HOME

Afterall, looking all dull or shining like a disco ball are both not really desirable.

FASHION

Critic Consensus: Filled with dull action sequences and an underdeveloped storyline, this fifth Trek movie is probably the worst of the series.

MOVIES & TV

This ultra-concentrated powder to mousse mask offers deep detoxification, transforming dull, congested skin and revealing a renewed radiance.

HEALTH & FITNESS

While many people suggest that having a few drinks is the ideal way to get to know your date, just having a drink can be a bit dull or bland.

DATING

Though Kidman delivers a workmanlike performance, the story manages to be soppy and ploddingly dull, told via a screenplay that drives home the fact that it’s not really about momentous events, but momentous feelings.

MOVIES & TV

Meat, animal flesh, eggs were considered dull, heavy, impure.

HEALTH & FITNESS

Hi Nessa, I find that it isn’t great for my skin and makes it look/feel pretty dull but everyone reacts differently!

FOOD & BEVERAGES

The problem is that the film sticks too close to it’s stage roots, which makes the scenery a little dull after awhile.

MOVIES & TV

Impressively, however, this never gets dull.

MOVIES & TV

It might be dull.

Это может быть скучно.

I know that sounds dull as a drugstore novel, and what I see inside I’ll never be able to cast into words, but that’s what I mean.

Я знаю, это звучит скучно, как дешевый роман,.. …и то, что внутри, мне никогда не выразить словами, но смысл в этом.

I’m afraid this is dull for Irena.

Боюсь, что для Ирены это скучно.

It’s been so dull around here.

Здесь было так скучно.

— Sounds pretty dull.

— Это, должно быть, скучно.

The dull look of a trapped animal.

Тупой взгляд загнанного зверя.

Rusty and dull.

Ржавый и тупой.

Bye ridiculously dull Bobby.

Пока до смешного тупой Боби.

— The fucking knife’s too dull

Нож тупой.

Dull thought it is, it is, after all, a bank.

Тупой или нет, но всё же это банк.

Well, I think it’s pretty dull around here.

Я думаю, здесь довольно уныло.

Well, I told you it was dull.

Ну, я сказала вам, что здесь было уныло.

A 30-year prison sentence sounds pretty dull to me.

30-летняя тюремное заключение звучит довольно уныло для меня.

Accounted with such a house, and it cannot be all deadly dull.

— таким домом не может быть все смертельно уныло.

Wine might dull our faculties.

Вино может притупить наши способности.

[Narrator] Yet, as remarkable as this rescue was, it could not dull the grief that settled over Everest… after the worst disaster in the mountain’s history.

[ Narrator ] И все же, даже это замечательное спасение, не могло притупить горе, обосновавшееся вокруг Эвереста… после наихудшего бедствия в истории горовосхождения.

If anyone has reason to dull the pain, it’s a teenage dwarf.

Если у кого и есть причина притупить боль, так это у карлика-подростка.

It’s just to dull the pain!

Это просто чтобы притупить боль!

I just took four benadryls to dull my sensitivity.

Я только что выпил четыре таблетки бенадрила, чтобы притупить чувствительность.

Here at Dulles, the quiet men from the Justice Department will handcuff the man who symbolizes the enemy in America’s fight against cocaine.

Здесь, в аэропорту Даллеса, молчаливые люди из министерства юстиции наденут наручники человеку, символизирующему врага в американской борьбе с кокаином.

I’ve just been informed by Dulles traffic control that there’s a weather front ahead of us.

Меня только что информировали из диспетчерской Даллеса, что перед нами погодный фронт.

Attention, Dulles tower.

Внимание, башня Даллеса.

Contact Dulles tower frequency at the outer marker.

Выйдите на связь на частоте башни Даллеса у внешнего маркера.

— Calibrate Dulles altimeter…

— Калибровать альтиметр Даллеса…

— Forget it. — Drinking dulls your senses.

— Алкоголь притупляет чувства.

— Yeah, smoking dulls your senses.

— Да, курение притупляет чувства.

It likely dulls the pain of folding, acting like a sort of beta blocker.

Возможно,это также притупляет их боль, Действует вроде бета-блокатора.

But I also know something that dulls it.

Но я также знаю то, что притупляет это.

Haam suggests that age is dulling my abilities… so, I hope you’ll prove to him that he’s mistaken.

Хаам считает, что возраст притупляет мои способности… Надеюсь, ты докажешь ему, что он ошибается.

Dull, insignificant.

Глупо и незначительно.

I know. That will be dull.

Это будет глупо.

That’s rather dull.

Это довольно глупо.

Dull but, you know, thorough.

Глупо, но, как знаешь, основательно.

What’s awaiting you in the finale, Mr. Dulles?

Что ждёт вас в финале, господин Даллес?

This is Allen Dulles.

Это Аллен Даллес.

Dulles, what’s going on?

Даллес, что происходит?

— Dulles, this is Windsor 114.

— Даллес, это Виндзор 114.

Dulles, this is Windsor 114 inside the outer marker.

Даллес, это Виндзор 114 на внешнем маркере.

He’s really very dull.

ОН страшный зануда.

He’s impeccably honest and extremely dull.

Увидишь, месье Грамон тебе понравится, он противоестественный честный зануда.

In fact, Piet is also nice, he is a good husband. But he is so dull.

По сути Пит тоже добрый, как муж он хорош, но такой зануда!

It’s all right it you’re dull.

— Да. Так что ничего, что ты зануда.

He must be dull.

Должно быть, он зануда.

The colours are too dull.

Цвета слишком тусклые.

It’s dull, it’s dead, it’s flat.

Они тусклые, безжизненные, бесформенные.

My hair’s gone all dull and brittle.

Волосы тусклые и ломкие.

They are dull and red like old embers.

— Тусклые и красные, как угли.

But thank God, never dull or sordid.

Но никогда, хвала Богу, ни тусклым, ни подлым.

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1. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy. 

2. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 

3. The countryside was flat, dull and uninteresting.

4. He had grown staid and dull.

5. His head hit the floor with a dull thud.

6. After a dull start, it should brighten up later.

7. She wrote dull, respectable articles for the local newspaper.

8. The house was dull, old-fashioned and in bad condition.

9. The first half of the game was pretty dull.

10. Her eyes looked dull and sunken.

11. The work gets a bit dull at times.

12. A dull red flush suffused Selby’s face.

13. I have a dull pain.

14. I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.

15. Life in a small town could be deadly dull.

16. Robots can relieve people of dull and repetitive work.

17. There’s never a dull moment when John’s around.

18. Life is never dull when Elizabeth is here.

19. A dull pain began to throb behind his lids.

20. I abhor the dull routine of existence.

21. That was dull, wasn’t it?

22. I felt she found me boring and dull.

23. The conference was deadly dull.

24. I am dull of hearing.sentencedict.com/dull.html

25. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

26. The room is dull.

27. The book was so dull that I didn’t finish it.

28. My life is dull.

29. No, it was dull.

30. It is dull today.

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Dull

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Dull in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word dull in a sentence.

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   There were few dull moments.

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   Suddath of Time called their duet dull.

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   Most larks are fairly dull in appearance.

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   Juveniles also have dusky bills and dull legs.

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   The crown and nape are a darker dull turquoise.

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   I am an old man, A dull head among windy places.

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   In flight, the beating wings produce a dull sound.

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   At other times, the female bill is pink or dull red.

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   Their dark eyes are lined with dull, reddish bare skin.

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    The coloration quickly fades to a dull gray after death.

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    It also varies as its nape to back is a dull grey colour.

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    Normally a clutch of two dull, white, oval eggs are laid.

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    The fur is a dull brown above and dark, leaden gray beneath.

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    Each rendered piece had to look like real metal, shiny or dull.

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    After death, the coloration fades quickly to dull gray or brown.

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    He found most of the teaching there dull, save for lectures by E.

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    On Psyk’s Popcorn Jungle, Paul Coates wrote, «This movie is dull.

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    They are dull green with serrated margins and a white undersurface.

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    The tortoises have a large bony shell of a dull brown or grey color.

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    Crocodilian teeth vary from blunt and dull to sharp and needle-like.

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    The mosaic tiles are mostly colored red, green, and blue on dull gold.

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    The irises are dull brown or grey, and the peri-orbital skin is black.

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    The serrated leaves are dull green with new growth a paler grey green.

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    The juvenile is dull grey-brown above and grey-brown washed white below.

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    Abdomen deep dull black, slightly shining on the sides and about the tip.

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    The cotyledon leaves are a dull green with no visible nerves or markings.

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    Its nostrils and the cere are bright or dull yellow and the bill is black.

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    The colours look dull when the bird is perched but become vibrant in flight.

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    Its flanks are bright red or orange, fading to pink or dull red on the belly.

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    The grey feathers of the sides of the crown may be suffused with dull orange.

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    Other areas of the panel, however, have been described as dull and uninspired.

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    Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called it dull and «occasionally heavy-handed».

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    Darwin found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so he neglected his studies.

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    The juvenile is duller than the adult with a dull yellow bill and brownish legs.

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    The bare skin around the eyes is dull orange, the legs and feet are yellow-brown.

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    At this time, the bill becomes pink or dull red and the legs turn flesh-coloured.

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    Its legs are a dull red-brown, and its thin bill is pinkish-gray with a dark tip.

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    He had difficulty attracting his own clients and found the work trivial and dull.

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    The drums are largely untreated with sound effects which left them sounding dull.

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    Punk balked at Laurinaitis’ promotion and verbally attacked him as a dull yes man.

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    Both sexes have plumage ranging from dull grey to sandy brown, and pale brown legs.

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    On the cap underside are small yellowish pores that turn dull blue-grey when bruised.

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    The centre of the breast is a dull brown-yellow, while the sides are a reddish brown.

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    The chin is a dull cream, merging with the throat, which then browns towards the base.

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    At that time lead had few (if any) applications due to its softness and dull appearance.

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    The immature American goldfinch has a dull brown back, and the underside is pale yellow.

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    The back and upper surface of the wings are a dark dull blue with a moderate green gloss.

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    Spin gave Loveless a mixed review; writer Jim Greer felt it was «standard-ish and dull ..

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    The cap surface is dry and dull, coloured red to red-orange, and yellow towards the margin.

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    The scales are pink to brownish red, fading to a pale brown-gray or dull yellow in maturity.

adjective прилагательное

сравнительная степень (comparative):

duller.

Синонимы:

dim,

lackluster,

matted,

apathetic,

arid,

blah,

blunt,

boring,

bovine,

brutish,

crass,

dimmed,

drab,

dreary,

dumb.

1. скучный

2. тупой

   dull sound
   глухой звук

3. пасмурный

   dull weather
   пасмурная погода

4. тусклый

5. вялый

6. матовый

7. серый

8. монотонный

9. бездарный