wearisome
Example Sentences
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For the historian or biographer, such details are inescapably important; for the lay reader, they can become wearisome.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
It’s funny, some years it starts to get a little wearisome and you kind of feel who’s going to win by the time you get to the Oscars.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024
"Alas, it was also, as this wearisome musical prequel cruelly demonstrates, a mistake."
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
That gift grows more wearisome in the book’s final sections, as Markley balances ever-more-intense portraits of devastation with ever more pages of Ashir’s policy wonkery and scenes of boardroom debates.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023
And this anxiety to keep his father from angering her was wearisome to him and it was another thing to make of his love a burden to him.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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