How to Use mundane in a Sentence

mundane

adjective
  • They lead a pretty mundane life.
  • The chips and hot sauce are mundane.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2026
  • These are things that could feel mundane.
    — Emily Brindley, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The ball hit off the back of the rim, a mundane miss.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • If this sounds mundane, it must be stressed that is not the case.
    — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2018
  • But the truth was more mundane—and more troubling.
    — Erik Lie, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Many are high tech; others are quite mundane.
    — Brendan O'Connor, Curbed, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Adebayo raised for a mundane jump shot.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Smell alerts the brain to the mundane, like dirty clothes, and the risky, like spoiled food.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Here was a death that was permanent in the mundane sort of way.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The tape might be mundane, but the primer and flat white paint used on the chassis is not.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Their connection brought a spark of joy to the most mundane days.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Or the same joy for the mundane drills that make a big difference.
    — Mirin Fader, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And many more mundane harms are already coming to pass.
    — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The bond between them was far too strong for a mundane jam session like that.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Most of these spaces are more mundane than pinball halls, of course.
    — Bill Lascher, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
  • But, for Australia, his most mundane grab meant most of all.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • There’s so much laughter despite the mundane part of this work.
    — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Having fun is great, but a mundane matter might bring you back down to earth.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • People have very strong feelings about the most mundane things.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 15 Aug. 2017
  • But the truck can go back and forth all day, the most mundane job that drivers don't want to do.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Most of what school officers do is mundane.
    — Clare Amari, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Think about what this would look like for a mundane purchase, say, a gallon of milk.
    — Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News, 14 Sep. 2017
  • There’s hard, mundane work outside of putting down the bottle and putting down the pipe.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • These bets range from the mundane, like which team will score first, to the highly obscure.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Plenty of things can cause your heart to pick up the pace, and many of them are pretty mundane.
    — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 18 Aug. 2022
  • No question is too outlandish or mundane.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, the appeal of the show is in how mundane the interviews are.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • Let’s go outside the mundane and what people know us as every day.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Senior staff spend less time on mundane tasks and more on what truly matters.
    — Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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