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
• Gillian Flynn’s tale of marital tedium — and then revenge — is every couple’s worst nightmare.
  — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
• As with Cassavetes, $$$ suffers from some aimless stretches, although unlike the works of that pioneering filmmaker the brief running time prevents too much tedium from settling in.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024