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
Lips chapped and tempers frayed, and the ceaseless ringing and jingling of the troika bells grew so wearisome, it was like something out of Poe.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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