They think that I'm dull but I'm not as dull as I look.

BBC: Both the greyhound's ears had been cut off

My ailment is just another ambient backdrop now, another machine falling apart with no parts to replace the scrapped ones, another grim dispatch from the quadrants of the deadly dull but not yet quite deadly enough condition our condition is in.

NEWYORKER: Lostronaut

That issue is technical and would have made a dull programme but that does not excuse the old cliches that were broadcast last night.

BBC: Panorama: Mondays at 2030 BST on BBC One

Kathleen Barry's history of how gracious stewardesses turned into sexy air hostesses and then into tough, grumpy flight attendants tries hard to be dull, but thankfully does not quite succeed.

ECONOMIST: Flight attendants

The mettle of a president is tested not during a dull routine, but in a crisis.

BBC: Hurricane Sandy - challenge for presidential rivals

Not a bad fellow, the driver, but rather dull in conversation.

WSJ: Audi A8 L W12 Exclusive: Luxury Can Be Lonely

But this time, the substance in question is not meant to dull and numb.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This transforms the car into a virtual office, giving motorists not only dull information such as how fast they are travelling, but also e-mail, the Internet, news services and navigation functions.

ECONOMIST: Wired cars

This is the selling point of Dead State: it is not set during the first desperate struggle to survive, but in the long, dull period when zombies have become a fact of life (or unlife).

FORBES: 'Dead State' Interview: Why There Are Too Many Zombies, And How To Fund Making More

Work and school, laundry, dinner, the things that happened in their lives were not part of the brightness that she and Roy had glimpsed but were, rather, dull, quite expected, and entirely unastonishing.

NEWYORKER: The Yellow