Example sentences for: boredom

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

  • She believed you could repeat the same word over and over without risking boredom, because each time it appeared it was like new.

  • Here is her despairing diary entry after she visited a memoir club and read a chapter aloud: "I couldn't help figuring a kind of uncomfortable boredom on the part of the males; to whose genial cheerful sense my revelations were at once mawkish and distasteful.

  • She got our attention because she was cute, but she held it because she gave the paparazzi so much to work with--all those unchecked expressions of slyness or shyness or vulnerability or boredom, all that Sturm und Drang about needing her privacy.

  • Reviews of inaugural pomp (appearances by celebrities Jessye Norman, Antonio Banderas, and Hootie and the Blowfish, as well as a parade) range from outrage at the "unseemly excess" (the Washington Post 's Tom Shales) to boredom, though Norman's rendition of "Amazing Grace" was praised in the Post as "stirring."

  • The boredom of jail is alleviated if one puts some puff (a.k.a. weed a.k.a. draw ) marijuana in with some burn (a.k.a. snout ) tobacco to make a joint marijuana cigarette, which, when washed down with some hooch illegally brewed alcohol can make the time pass a little quicker.


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