How to Use tiresome in a Sentence

tiresome

adjective

• All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while.
• Isn’t this all, at the end of the day, a little tiresome?
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• The search for the best shoes for women can be a tiresome one.
  — Vogue, 12 May 2022
• The practices are less tiresome now that the unit is back to full strength.
  — Shandel Richardson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Yes Sometimes the flat road gets tiresome, so why not take to the trails?
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
• The buttons were easy to use, but as the weight of the mixer pulled on our arm, the tasks grew more tiresome.
  — Tanya Edwards, CNN Underscored, 19 Nov. 2020
• On-screen, drawn out over the course of nine hour-long episodes, her crimes come off as tiresome.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Yet for all this tiresome razzmatazz, the model is not new.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• But, more than anything, the month rang false, felt tiresome, and was just not enough.
  — Chelsea Sanders, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2021
• Mike’s kvetching gets tiresome, but the movie zooms along with whiplash speed.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• Bendelacreme's schtick, which grew tiresome the first time around, still feels that way.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• Here, nothing stands out: The best episodes are merely good enough, and the worst just tiresome.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Deena wrote about her pain, her spirals, the coping skills that worked and the ones that grew tiresome.
  — USA Today, 14 Sep. 2020
• In a space where breakthroughs happen by the week, this can be tiresome.
  — Eric Olson, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
• The fun and the thrill of the chase keep the pages moving and gets you past Cline's tiresome name-dropping of every pop culture item of the 1980s.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2018
• And don't even mention going through the same old tiresome check-in process at the airport.
  — J.j. McCorvey, USA TODAY, 22 May 2017
• This tiresome issue has consumed the EU for more than two years.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Some folks say the high-pitched whine gets tiresome and their inch-long length is imposing.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2017
• Twelve-thousand times now he’s driven this route, and none of it got tiresome.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2022
• Moll is making a name for himself as more than a tiresome crank.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024
• Nigel Farage, the tiresome head of the new Brexit Party, said that Darroch should be fired at once.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
• That’d be a slap in the face of all African-Americans, for whom the issue is anything but tiresome.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 17 Feb. 2020
• The art and artists do the heavy lifting while the curators, among them an Aussie comic, go trite and tiresome.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 June 2023
• But the antics with the officials are well past tiresome.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
• Getting up for every round of beer or to order the next course gets tiresome.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Say goodbye to the tiresome jack-stand boogie and hello to the quick driveway oil change.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
• Beth’s threats against Jamie have gotten tiresome, but for once this feels like a sincere threat.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• Even the cliffhangers, which used to be batshit, are getting tiresome.
  — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 31 May 2017
• The politics around the debt ceiling are tiresome, to put it mildly.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 9 Sep. 2021
• To have your relationship at the centrepiece of your partner’s work is tiresome.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024