wearisome

Example Sentences

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It is harrowing but also wearisome stuff, a bit Liza with a zzzzz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

But when that goes on for days, and you haven't the memories of a night out with friends to offset it, it quickly become wearisome.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

This year’s team will be anything but wearisome, and watching them will be anything but drudgery, and doesn’t that already feel like a cool October breeze cutting through stale summer air?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin