One day, on a dull, drowsy afternoon, the dream-child called.

It was a dull afternoon, and Annie needed to turn her headlights on.

It was a dull afternoon, and someone at home might have put a light or two on, but none showed.

This was not going to be another dull Sunday afternoon.

She spent a dull afternoon and evening lying in her darkened room.

Get creative and try a few indoor activities that bring cheer and color to a dull afternoon.

The rain had ended by the time we stepped out of the courthouse into the dull late afternoon.

Dusk falling, suddenly as it does in the late fall, the dull afternoon fading into the sharp brightness of evening.

"Well, this is going to be a dull afternoon."

Mind you - a few gaffes would liven up a dull wet Tuesday afternoon.