bored

Example Sentences

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“I get bored reading sports memoirs and biographies. It’s a timeline of events and it’s kind of like ‘OK, I watched that.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The condition causes him to obsessively pluck his beard or eyebrows when anxious or bored.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

I think people will be very bored with screen time in 20 years, so we will have moved back to fishing, reading books, gardening, playing real guitars and pianos, taking walks, and enjoying family cookouts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill are down around 33% over the past 12 months, after consumers got bored of the fast-casual industry’s high-priced “slop bowls” last year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

With the bored indifference that cats exhibit even when they are doing as they have been told, the feline troublemaker moseyed over to Cassiopeia and allowed herself to be picked up.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood