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 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 Abigail Jackson Surely, Kate will never tire of the kitchen, which is completely white from the slab-front cabinetry to the quartz counters and the veiny marble backsplash. —

Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tire of