as in boring
having nothing exciting, interesting, or unusual happening; not eventful
an uneventful vacation/day/life The flight home was uneventful.
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Recent Examples of uneventful
The only positive to take away from a chilly, uneventful night at Coors Field was the Dodgers losing their fourth game in a row on a walk-off to the pesty Orioles.
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Evans had an uneventful first summer in Charlotte.
—Mike Kaye
updated August 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
But even with their seemingly uneventful patrols, guard members may soon be armed while out and about.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
My days are long, busy and usually uneventful.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Evans had an uneventful first summer in Charlotte.
—Mike Kaye
updated August 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
But even with their seemingly uneventful patrols, guard members may soon be armed while out and about.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
My days are long, busy and usually uneventful.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for uneventful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
Adjective
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But Anderson also knows that the moral purity of revolutionaries gets boring pretty fast.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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However, the McCullum and Stokes selection wagon prefers fast wheels rather than those boring job specs, such as age and experience.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Without a strict hierarchy or single decision-maker, our process can sometimes be slow, messy, or even tiring.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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During the prelims in Tokyo, Seville had a concerning slow reaction to the starting gun.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Parisian servers may have an undeserved reputation for being slow, but instead of complaining or searching for faster service elsewhere, settle in with a book or newspaper.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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When Angels manager Ron Washington took medical leave in June for the remainder of the 2025 season, Bochy became the oldest skipper, and only septuagenarian, in MLB.—
Candace Oehler,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Viewed in this light, the old narrative of 1066 and its aftermath has much to recommend it.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But this more robust communications channel is quite welcome after decades of sterile chatbots and IVR that fail to offer a realistic experience to those trying to reach the top brass of any company anywhere.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The sterile cockpit rule prohibits pilots from engaging in conversations unrelated to operating the aircraft when flying below 10,000 feet.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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