How to Use boredom in a Sentence

boredom

noun

• On days when few customers came to shop, Bob felt overwhelmed by boredom.
• Each of the apps on my home screen seemed to promise only more boredom.
  — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
• Amanda didn’t like the boredom that is sometimes the life of a goalie.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• But boredom is not an inevitability, it can be avoided.
  — Nigel Davies, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• Call it a function of collective boredom during months of stay-at-home orders.
  — Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• This hope is for connection to others and a way out of loneliness, emptiness, or boredom.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Sara, my technician, was very gracious about the boredom factor and asked me questions to lighten the mood.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, Southern Living, 8 June 2021
• 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
• During the pandemic, people fought stress and boredom by whipping up cookies, breads, cakes and brownies.
  — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• If your kids need some new toys to stave off boredom, support local independent toy stores by ordering or buying from them.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2021
• But then reality hits, in the shape of boredom or, if children are involved, something a little more gruesome.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• The new emotion Ennui, represents the emotion of boredom.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2024
• This plateau means the body has adapted to the challenge, possibly spelling boredom and less vigorous exercise.
  — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• When boredom settles in, imagination and innovation move out.
  — Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Emotions: Emotions like stress, anxiety, depression, boredom, and even joy can lead to emotional eating or loss of appetite.
  — Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2024
• Social isolation, boredom and fear of gaining weight during quarantine also led to unhealthy behaviors.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• Urban legend has it that spikes in birth rates follow power cuts, flooding and natural disasters as people huddle together for warmth and comfort in the face of boredom or adversity.
  — Natasha Preskey, refinery29.com, 28 May 2021
• Use these ideas to break up the monotony of the brown bag boredom.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024