| 1. | The monotony became unbearable, and as the mist thickened, he felt afraid. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | No, he was simply a way of escape from the insufferable monotony of my life.. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | He languishes in an unchanging environment and finds monotony almost unbearable. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | Work palls on the Alimentive and monotony on the Thoracic, but leisure is what palls on the Muscular. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | The delay was pleasant, with its opportunity for drowsy sunning, its relief from the grimy monotony of travel. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 6. | He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad." She paused a minute, and added in a different tone "And then I met John Cavendish.. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | Now and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the conversation soon flagged. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |