wearisome

Example Sentences

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For the historian or biographer, such details are inescapably important; for the lay reader, they can become wearisome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s funny, some years it starts to get a little wearisome and you kind of feel who’s going to win by the time you get to the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024

"Alas, it was also, as this wearisome musical prequel cruelly demonstrates, a mistake."

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

That gift grows more wearisome in the book’s final sections, as Markley balances ever-more-intense portraits of devastation with ever more pages of Ashir’s policy wonkery and scenes of boardroom debates.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

It was dreary and wearisome: Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien