Example sentences for: ennui

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

  • “My dear, you are merely troubled by ennui.”

  • 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.

  • But perhaps such comments are intended less for those who feel afflicted by this particular form of ennui than for the larger group capable of resenting the rich.

  • Ellis' latest novel of ennui and anomie among America's beautiful people irritates reviewers to varying degrees.

  • The New Yorker 's John Lahr says American audiences simply can't understand Chekhovian ennui.


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