How to Use boredom in a Sentence

boredom

noun
  • On days when few customers came to shop, Bob felt overwhelmed by boredom.
  • Use these ideas to break up the monotony of the brown bag boredom.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Amanda didn’t like the boredom that is sometimes the life of a goalie.
    oregonlive, 25 May 2021
  • Sometimes the best cure for boredom is leaving the house.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In the aughts, a friend who'd moved from Paris nearly went crazy with boredom and fled.
    Jason Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Some chose to make the best of the boredom, choreographing TikTok dances to fill the time.
    Frankie Adkins, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Waiting for our flight in the airport, my boyfriend and I snack out of boredom.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 23 Sep. 2022
  • He was drawn into the work of the hospital out of boredom.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • As the heat pounds, the girls fend off boredom with the slouchy aimlessness that leads to scrapes and escapes.
    Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Rome is the city to escape from stress, boredom and Parisian melancholy.
    Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Each of the apps on my home screen seemed to promise only more boredom.
    Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
  • This means that the passengers are doomed to deal with their own boredom.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
  • Over that time, Ginny talked about the utter boredom of life in Dolor compared to the rest of the world.
    Hazlitt, 25 Jan. 2023
  • To stave off boredom, Mata would draw on a napkin with a pen.
    Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2022
  • An event in the larger world today could free you from a rut of boredom with your job and your home life.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 3 Oct. 2021
  • And since there are 634 pieces, there's no chance of boredom ever settling in.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
  • The goal is to fight boredom and distraction and have someone on your side in the battle.
    Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2021
  • To help with the boredom, the Condies sent their daughter four 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean that the boredom of school or the jitters from seeing your crush were any less real.
    Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • For many, such hobbies have been a way to relieve boredom and stress, to give form to shapeless days.
    New York Times, 25 June 2021
  • Maybe that eight ball of cocaine was in the White House because without it the staffers would just fall asleep out of sheer boredom.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 July 2023
  • Dogs have been known to chew on rugs, couches, and more in an effort to relieve boredom.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Sometimes a yawn is a sign of exhaustion and not boredom.
    Mike Bass Special To The Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 25 May 2023
  • Older women — in this case, the Baroness, whom Thompson plays with a touch of boredom — are the villains.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 29 May 2021
  • An outlandish thriller that takes the viewer on a wild and crazy ride where boredom is not an option.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 22 Sep. 2024
  • He’s often closed his eyes in either sleep, boredom or both, and sat with his arms crossed.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 May 2024
  • Slater explains that the first 24 minutes of the movie were mixed in mono to reflect Ellie’s boredom with her life.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Nudy tells me that his first rap came from boredom in the studio, with a friend who took so long to finish a song that Nudy fell asleep.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Cure your weekday boredom with with hip-hop orchestral concerts, outdoor movies, BBQ pop-ups and so much more this week in Charlotte.
    Mckenzie Rankin, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • To combat boredom, players are allowed to bring books and other activities, such as puzzles and crosswords.
    Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024

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