tire of

phrasal verb

tired of; tiring of; tires of

: to become bored by (something) : to stop being interested in (something)

He soon tired of doing the same work every day.

She never tires of listening to music.

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By Matt Brennan , Mary McNamara and Yvonne Villarreal Oct. 11, 2024 12 PM PT Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who never tires of a good, solid medical procedural. —

Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 By then fans had begun to tire of Disney's relentless iteration of the format and the audience scored it 64% on Rotten Tomatoes. —

Caroline Reid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 And button-ups, like this one which is 49 percent off, are a style that celebs seem to never tire of. —

Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024 Photos recently went viral of students crouching beneath their desks during a police operation on a nearby boulevard, where fleeing suspects tossed spikes onto the streets to puncture the tires of National Guard vehicles chasing them. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tire of