- a boring evening with uninteresting people.
- a dark day.
- a dull gaze.
- a dull glow.
- a dull play.
- a dull political campaign.
- a dull sky.
- a dull sky.
- a dull throbbing.
- a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention.
- a large dull impassive man.
- a sluggish market.
- Age had dulled the surface.
- although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick.
- business is dull (or slow).
- dull days with nothing to do.
- dull greens and blues.
- dull pain.
- dull silver badly in need of a polish.
- dumb officials make some really dumb decisions.
- fell back into one of her dull moods.
- he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse.
- he was so dull at parties.
- his competent but dull performance.
- how dull and dreary the world is.
- Middle age dulled her appetite for travel.
- muffled drums.
- muted trumpets.
- never met anyone quite so dim.
- other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome.
- so dense he never understands anything I say to him.
- so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her.
- tedious days on the train.
- the deadening effect of some routine tasks.
- the dull boom of distant breaking waves.
- the dull thud.
- the knife was too dull to be of any use.
- the muffled noises of the street.
- The shock numbed her senses.
- the sky was leaden and thick.
- the tiresome chirping of a cricket.
- the varnished table top dulled with time.
- thudding bullets.
- Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge.
- what an irksome task the writing of long letters is.
- worked with the slow students.