boredom

Example Sentences

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But outside all these lesser boredoms and anxieties there was another bigger than all the rest and growing every day: After the money was gone, what?

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

However, if I overtax your intellect, you can leave us and seek the society of love and beauty and the rest of your favorite boredoms.

From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard

It is impossible perhaps to be whirled in this fashion out of the whisperings and boredoms of town without longing to know a little more of the pretty magician who works this wonderful transformation scene.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

It was all a matter of feeling and what concerned him was merely the comforts or discomforts, pleasures or pains, exhilarations or boredoms of the passing moment.

From The Soul of a Child by Björkman, Edwin

For this reason the lives of the timid become a succession of boredoms and of pains.

From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.