Example sentences for: tiresome

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

  • Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,

  • Such a policy is unfair, of course: one should not be prejudiced against a person's magnum opus just because he has a tiresome taste in quotations.

  • Beatty's hemming-and-hawing style of delivery gets tiresome pretty quickly ("I want to thank the Americans for Democratic, uh, Action"), as do his repetitive screeds about the special interests, the corporations, and the plutocrats.

  • We thereby avoid the tiresome issue of whether anything improper actually has occurred.

  • Beating up on the press is old and tiresome.


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