boredom
Example Sentences
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To combat the isolation and boredom, troops sometimes do fun activities aboard the ship, like hold singing competitions and picnics on the top deck.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
They’ve become monuments to corporate greed — zones of atrophy, boredom and total disempowerment.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Also, I am afraid your columns do not sufficiently extol the value of work, which Voltaire rightly claimed protects us from the evils of boredom, vice, and poverty.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
“Digital environments become the easiest and most reliable way to regulate mood, boredom, or stress, so they gradually start to crowd everything else out.”
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
It could’ve been a prank, or a trap laid by the Randalls in a fit of boredom.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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