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

There was nothing to do and I was bored stiff.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2015

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

But all producers of animated films are facing the same inexorable fact: Grown-ups pay the tickets and the DVDs, and they don't want to be bored stiff or drowned in saccharine.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2011

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

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn