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
• Creatives can shake the boredom and push the limits by seeing in new ways.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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 keep from going crazy with boredom, be sure to take a phone, tablet or laptop with you.
  — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 3 Apr. 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
• There’s boredom and weariness to her everyday chores, her hope laced now with the sheer mundanity of her everyday solitary life.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
• Now, Robert believes it was all connected: a fundamental boredom with being his wife.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024