How to Use mundane in a Sentence

mundane

adjective

• They lead a pretty mundane life.
• Smell alerts the brain to the mundane, like dirty clothes, and the risky, like spoiled food.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
• If this sounds mundane, it must be stressed that is not the case.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2018
• The columns were written for the mundane reasons of the present.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• 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
• Ditching the grandiose for the mundane, Frog and Toad share a love story for the ages.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Even if the views are mundane — look at the U-Haul parking lot across the street!
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The messages, many sent late at night, veer from the mundane to the personal.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Most of it reads like a chronicle of a mundane work trip.
  — Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
• These bets range from the mundane, like which team will score first, to the highly obscure.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 14 Feb. 2022
• Ava never went to a place where such things were mundane.
  — Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2013
• Plenty of things can cause your heart to pick up the pace, and many of them are pretty mundane.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 27 Mar. 2020
• In the past decade, the great body hair debate has shifted, as the sight of it becomes more and more mundane.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 23 Apr. 2018
• There’s so much laughter despite the mundane part of this work.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• Both the utterly sublime and the mundane were side by side.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Sims has long allowed its fans to indulge in the most mundane of fantasies.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• The bond between them was far too strong for a mundane jam session like that.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
• The views are of the mundane work — meetings, desk work, answering phones.
  — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane.
  — Jack Nicas Victor Moriyama, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• Each and every day, what might feel mundane to these guys...
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2021
• Think about what this would look like for a mundane purchase, say, a gallon of milk.
  — Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News, 14 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The strange appeal of ‘Burgers,’ both the show and the film, is precisely in its mix of the mundane and the pointless (or, to be kinder, the absurd).
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Most of these spaces are more mundane than pinball halls, of course.
  — Bill Lascher, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
• Viewed one way, some this stuff can feel pretty mundane.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 12 May 2023
• Many of those moments and places are mundane and obscure.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
• The Incredibles films follow the daily lives of the Parr family, a household of superheroes trying to hide their powers while navigating a mundane life that occasionally beckons for more.
  — Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• Also, with Pluto stationing retrograde shortly after, the underlying tension between your need for growth and adventure versus the more mundane, practical aspects of life could start to feel burdensome.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024