be tedious
Example Sentences
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“Scrubs” recognizes that most of a doctor’s hero moments can be tedious, as J.D. observes while languishing on hold with an insurance company.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
“It would be tedious as well as unwelcome,” Lord Halifax said on another occasion, “to recapitulate all our wrong steps.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
“This will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,” he wrote on X.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
Well, that and the fact that people really do talk a lot about real estate, a subject that somehow manages to be tedious and thrilling, crass and impersonal all at once.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2024
It would be tedious to enumerate all the contrivances which this problem has suggested to political societies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
