boring

Example Sentences

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Early on, we had a movie that got maybe boring.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

People always bring up the enormous amount of money have spent and some argue City's football can be boring at times - and, yes, that does frustrate lots of fans.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

That’s because some of this stuff is technical, and a lot of it is boring.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

More than likely, people have already done it, and that’s what got us to where we are right now—this sterile, boring, overly monitored lab.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly