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

Similarly, doubt has been cast on Dylan’s statements because of her affect in some of the recordings made of her as a child—she’s said to seem uninterested and bored, stiff, coached.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2014

But the element of surprise can also be satisfying: “I got bored stiff with what I was doing in regular pottery class,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2013

“Let me finish reading it to you. You’re bored stiff with Clematis.”

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn