monotonous

Preposition: after

• while: All that sunshine and seafood can get get monotonous after a while.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Parades can be fun, but too much parading can make festivity look monotonous.
• get: You certainly know when you are hit but the rotor sound gets a bit monotonous after a while.
• become: Your style, Willy, has become a bit monotonous.

Modifies a noun

• regularity: Ten minutes later, with monotonous regularity, he was back.
• repetition: If history teaches anything, it teaches this, and with monotonous repetition.
• tone: I was getting frantic with the monotonous engaged tone of the phone.
• diet: Hard fare: a deliberately monotonous diet, with exactly the same food on the same day each week.
• voice: Nobody likes to listen to flat, monotonous voices.
• routine: Are your finances in disarray, is your life a monotonous routine, do you feel lost or unsure of your purpose in life?

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Science writing has, as a consequence, been rather limited in its range of forms, and somewhat monotonous in style.
• rather: A second phase of planting is planned for Priory Gardens to enhance the rather monotonous bank of single species shrub planting.
• almost: This is apparent in the almost monotonous string of " ands " in the English Versions of chapter one.
• quite: This food is quite monotonous although you add spices to most of the food to get some variety.
• too: When the grammar lessons were becoming too monotonous I would retreat to the questions and unknowns of global politics.
• little: Food is usually good, although sometimes a little monotonous, but the picnic lunches are very good and most drinks are included.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Anything longer than the first round just becomes monotonous.
• get: Just seems to get more monotonous with each listen.
• seem: While the combat side of the game seems slightly monotonous, the tactical and strategic area is where this game comes into its own.
• grow: He said, " This thing is growing monotonous!