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

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

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

Riding this team’s annual shooting star has become wearisome.

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