bored

Example Sentences

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I think people will be very bored with screen time in 20 years, so we will have moved back to fishing, reading books, gardening, playing real guitars and pianos, taking walks, and enjoying family cookouts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

If those Lakers — combustible and bored but built better than every other team on the planet at the time — could turn the triple play, so can Roberts’ drama-free superteam.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Almost inevitably, they get bored of what they have built and feel the itch to build again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill are down around 33% over the past 12 months, after consumers got bored of the fast-casual industry’s high-priced “slop bowls” last year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

It sounds like a goofy thing a bored kid with an overbusy imagination would invent, just to get attention.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins