boresome

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar."

From Time Magazine Archive

Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the Olympic Torch was extinguished at Los Angeles in 1932, the boresome bickerings began with a meeting of the American Olympic Association to decide whether to send a team to Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The twins, having completed what had been for them a daring undertaking, now looked about for release from an atmosphere grown suddenly boresome.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)