How to Use tedium in a Sentence

tedium

noun

• The movie was three hours of tedium.
• I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
• By now she’s used to the tedium of people who grew up here.
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2022
• There are aspects of the game that make that tedium worse.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Small talk breaks out to ease the tedium of the endless hungry hours.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The tedium of the band’s hometown is not lost on Robinson.
  — Matthias Clamer, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2022
• There’s also the tedium of the long bus ride and the suspect types also on board.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
• Baked too long, the cake will burn, suspense turned to tedium.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the spells of tedium made the distress signals all the more intense.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• Then, in the waterfront wind and chill, would come the tedium of waiting for the concrete to set.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• After a while, the drama of the traffic stop, the chase and the beating fades into the routine tedium of the job.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
• The tedium of playing 27 games of tic-tac-toe with your first-grader.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• For many fliers, tedium is the worst part of being stuck in coach on an ultra-long flight.
  — Barbara Peterson, CNT, 13 July 2017
• In the midst of the lockdown, a box filled with bite-sized cakes or kitchen gadgets could really knock the wind out of the tedium.
  — Jenn McMillen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Imagine the tedium, the hovering clouds of cigar smoke and B.O.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• Audiences over the past three seasons haven’t heard any tedium from Stenz and the BSO.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Step forward the WAGs, to save Brits from despair and tedium, at least for a little while.
  — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2019
• Save someone from the tedium of household chores with the clever robot.
  — Jose Ryller, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• The tedium of these lulls heightens the dread that leads up to, and lingers long after, brief glimpses of eldritch terror.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2023
• Kerr had to brainstorm how to fight through the tedium of the regular season.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• No, this year, my twins turned 6 right in the middle of the endless tedium and tragedy of the pandemic summer.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2020
• Forget the tedium of scanning one at a time and place a whole stack of prints from Polaroids to panoramas in the feeder.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• Features singing by Lykke Li, which relieves the tedium, sort of.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• What no one wants to admit is that The Discourse provides a shot in the arm that relieves the tedium of the everyday.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
• Finding any one number takes a bit of guesswork and a lot of tedium.
  — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
• The word insurance evokes in me feelings of tedium and loathing.
  — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
• A FEW years ago, the news about the euro-zone economy was uniformly bad to the point of tedium.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• The arrival of Sanders, in town for a rally in Phoenix, broke the tedium of an otherwise sleepy morning.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Distance swimming has a way of weeding out those with an aversion to the pain of endless laps and the tedium of staring at the black line at the bottom of the pool for some 20 hours a week.
  — Dave Sheinin, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024