How to Use wearisome in a Sentence

wearisome

adjective

• We had to listen to the usual wearisome complaints.
• Her stories can get a little wearisome.
• The endless fighting between the league and the players is so wearisome.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• That stuff has been wearisome (that’s putting it mildly) to Giants brass.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• In the wake of his death, one last cycle of Mad Mike indignation churned though all of its wearisome life phases.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• Attempting to dispute Winkler’s case at every turn would be wearisome for all concerned.
  — David Ellis, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
• Unfortunately, as is so often the case with this type of fare, the final act features a plethora of extended fight and chase scenes that quickly prove wearisome.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022
• Throw in an ongoing pandemic and other wearisome events during the past few years, and traumatic stress can compound.
  — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
• The characters’ strict adherence to their roles—brave woman, careless man—becomes wearisome.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
• Sometimes this soundtrack gets slightly repetitive, a bit wearisome.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
• That means audiences in the mood for a good old-fashioned Christmas show don't have to endure any of the of wearisome updating, reinventing and reimagining that classic theater works have often endured over the last couple of decades.
  — Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2017
• Even the excellence of Jakubiak and Poulis can't save their overwrought and protracted encounter, which eventually becomes wearisome.
  — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
• This bulging, precarious load is part of our collective memory of deprivation, connoting wearisome toil, hasty migration or both.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• The result is yet another wearisome tale that inelegantly depicts themes like acceptance, understanding and diversity within a saga that has always been rather clumsy with its messaging around such weighty topics.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 10 Jan. 2022
• Almost any other programmer would have insisted on hour installments, which would have buried the mysterious proceedings under wearisome layers of unnecessary weight.
  — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
• Trying to imbue those moments with greater import, however, soon proves a wearisome endeavor, especially considering that, aside from a few melancholic soundtrack arrangements, there’s little way to decipher their overarching intention.
  — Nick Schager, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• Might insecurity, then, explain her wearisome insolence?
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• This formulaic repetition of revolutionary rhetoric — a bit wearisome even to this sympathetic reader — has, admittedly, an organic function.
  — Ariel Dorfman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018

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