In like fashion, for over 50 years, they've shared one existence that's now reduced to a rehash of humdrum routines.

The humdrum routine of the attendants preparing the plane, the passengers waiting to board, the last-minute straggler only just making the cut... It would all be so prosaic if we didn't already know this flight is only ever going to end one way.

Life settled down to a fairly humdrum routine in these years, and she relieved the boredom through a protracted affair that she rather enjoyed with a married officer twenty years her senior, called Mike.

Time and again, he cites Lewis's fondness for the humdrum routine of his Oxbridge academic life.

In this case the calamity of a child's death is meant to shatter all the humdrum routine that once defined Alice Goodwin (Ms. Weaver) and her life on a Wisconsin farm.

So, it looks as if the humdrum routine of planet-taming is going to be livened up somewhat.

How I wish all this was over and I could get back to my humdrum routine.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.

Gordon is a creature of habit while Pam longs to break out of her humdrum routine.

I would have the same sense of choked breath and hazed vision until I once more settled into my humdrum routine.