Example sentences for: ennui

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

  • Many responses remark on our sedentary youth, barely able to leave the couch, let alone the house, sedated by the television, the Nintendo, the ennui, the Quaaludes.

  • Sixteen features look at the nomadic ennui of the frequent business traveler.

  • An article marvels at the Clinton administration's ennui: The second-term president has no agenda, and entire departments (notably the Justice Department) seem to be paralyzed.

  • "It is clear that the faithful are paralyzed by ennui and the party is floundering," writes William J. Bennett in the most recent issue of the Weekly Standard . "What is missing is a focused, appealing, and philosophically coherent national agenda."

  • Happiness melted into melancholy, sadness into ennui.


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