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.
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The endless fighting between the league and the players is so wearisome.
—Peter King, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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That stuff has been wearisome (that’s putting it mildly) to Giants brass.
—Peter King, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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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
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Attempting to dispute Winkler’s case at every turn would be wearisome for all concerned.
—David Ellis, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
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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
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Throw in an ongoing pandemic and other wearisome events during the past few years, and traumatic stress can compound.
—Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
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The characters’ strict adherence to their roles—brave woman, careless man—becomes wearisome.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
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Sometimes this soundtrack gets slightly repetitive, a bit wearisome.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Might insecurity, then, explain her wearisome insolence?
—Anna Mundow, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
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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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