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Examples of tiresome in a Sentence
All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while.
what a tiresome church service that turned out to be
Recent Examples on the Web
The show is overly reliant on James Austin Johnson's Trump impression, which, while very accurate, can be tiresome.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
To the interviewees, many of whom have interacted with or worked alongside Altman, the tech guru’s combination of lofty rhetoric and cult-of-personality has grown tiresome.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
Lowe can senses when the film might grow tiresome when Agnes is stuck in a self-defeating cycle, apt to throw in a particularly sadistic flourish into the mix any time a feeling of redundancy could set in.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
Sharing content is less an act of generosity than a tiresome ask—a request for attention and validation from someone who is already taxed to the gills with liking, responding, and reacting to the infinite scroll.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
During a brief romantic hiatus, Sophie gathers with the women in her family to cook in the farmhouse kitchen, with neither the tiresome Gordon or the dictatorial Ruby in the frame.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famously sent Sherlock Holmes hurtling to his death over the Reichenbach Falls: His tiresome infallibility must have grated on Doyle, who saw himself as destined for a more highbrow literary fame than 19th-century detective fiction allowed.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
After tiresome travels across the U.S. for marquee games and public events, the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy's season-long tour has come to an end — within the University of Michigan Wolverines' adoring embrace.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
Dialogues with folks such as me would have made The False White Gospel a less hectoring, tiresome, and arrogant book.
—Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
To the interviewees, many of whom have interacted with or worked alongside Altman, the tech guru’s combination of lofty rhetoric and cult-of-personality has grown tiresome.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
Lowe can senses when the film might grow tiresome when Agnes is stuck in a self-defeating cycle, apt to throw in a particularly sadistic flourish into the mix any time a feeling of redundancy could set in.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
Sharing content is less an act of generosity than a tiresome ask—a request for attention and validation from someone who is already taxed to the gills with liking, responding, and reacting to the infinite scroll.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
During a brief romantic hiatus, Sophie gathers with the women in her family to cook in the farmhouse kitchen, with neither the tiresome Gordon or the dictatorial Ruby in the frame.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famously sent Sherlock Holmes hurtling to his death over the Reichenbach Falls: His tiresome infallibility must have grated on Doyle, who saw himself as destined for a more highbrow literary fame than 19th-century detective fiction allowed.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
After tiresome travels across the U.S. for marquee games and public events, the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy's season-long tour has come to an end — within the University of Michigan Wolverines' adoring embrace.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
Dialogues with folks such as me would have made The False White Gospel a less hectoring, tiresome, and arrogant book.
—Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
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tiresome
adjective
tire·some
ˈtī(ə)r-səm 
: likely to tire one because of length or dullness : boring
a tiresome lecture
tiresomely
adverb
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