bored stiff

Example Sentences

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Tetyana was reluctant to send Sasha back, but the teenager was bored stiff after seven months in their village, so on 3 September she dropped him off in Kupyansk.

From BBC • May 30, 2023

I was bored stiff by the first month, with eight more months of the job left to go.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2017

There was nothing to do and I was bored stiff.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2015

But the element of surprise can also be satisfying: “I got bored stiff with what I was doing in regular pottery class,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2013

Sunday afternoon she was at Hanneli’s, and I was bored stiff.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank