boredom
Example Sentences
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Allowing yourself to be bored for a few hours is actually quite good for us, argues Sandi Mann, academic and author of The Science of Boredom.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2024
Boredom is easily identifiable, and generally easily rectified, so helping parents to deal with children's boredom without using food would be a potentially helpful way of reducing less healthy snacking.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023
Boredom sparked a rediscovery of that love as an adult, this time during the unending monotony of pandemic-era lockdowns.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
Boredom sometimes calcifies into loneliness, and for Daisy, the birds seemed to fix a problem I didn’t even know she had.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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