bore

Example Sentences

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The pandemic isn’t over but we can at least perceive its end; we’ve also long accepted the fact that we’re stupid and contagious, but also bored and antsy and hankering for excitement.

From Salon

After earning a law degree in 1964, Frank Craighill roamed through Africa and Asia, returned home broke, and found himself bored with the routines of a junior lawyer in Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The defendant... bore a duty as prime minister to comply with the Constitution and laws and to make every effort to uphold and realise the Constitution," he said.

From Barron's

Most kids, by then, are bored with summer and itchy from mosquito bites and poison ivy and nothing to do.

From Literature

He could get bored and go to Mars.

From MarketWatch