Example sentences for: bore

How can you use “bore” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That, combined with the image of Linda as groupie-in-shutterbug's-clothing conjured up by an infamous piece from the Clay Felker era at the Village Voice , established Linda as a figure of almost singular unpopularity (the "almost" courtesy of Yoko Ono, who in the public's addled mind, bore the added stigma of breaking up the Beatles.)

  • I won't bore you with the details, but it's really quite easy to download books and other reading materials into a palmtop computer.

  • For at least three hundred years the “additional designations’ that the Norman philosophy made necessary were not “inherited family names,’ but by-names, which applied only to those who bore them.

  • They had hardly turned into the high street when their search appeared to be successful, for they found a door that bore the sign Closed . That, they thought, could only be the English for the German word Klosett . But they were disappointed--the door simply did not open.

  • In the 1980s, this combination proved doubly vulnerable to the New Right's critique: Women's careers bore the bloodstains of abortions.


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