bored stiff
Example Sentences
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Tetyana was reluctant to send Sasha back, but the teenager was bored stiff after seven months in their village, so on 3 September she dropped him off in Kupyansk.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
Toward the end of the 1960s, Luke Rhinehart worked as a psychoanalyst in New York and was bored stiff.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2019
After years of teaching undergraduate science courses, Jeff realized he was bored stiff with rote curriculum — and if he was bored, what were the students?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2014
He then headed into a classroom where a dozen students hunched and slouched at their desks, looking bored stiff already.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2013
Sunday afternoon she was at Hanneli’s, and I was bored stiff.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
