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Example sentences for "bored"

Lexicographically close words:
bords; bordure; bore; boreal; borealis; boredom; boreen; boren; borer; borers
  1. Two holes are bored transversely in the ledge, one on either side of each floor.

  2. None besides what I heard through holes which I bored in one of the doors of the German-American Club this morning.

  3. But the others--they make life worth living, particularly for members of the Secret Service, who are apt to be a bit bored with the monotony of chasing counterfeiters and guarding the President.

  4. Though even had Leslie been left to his "own resources," these resources were somewhat more numerous than usual, and he was never much in the habit of being so bored by Time as to be obliged to lay plots against its life.

  5. Bored him right through the skull, and he lies there, hugging the root of the tree he was so fond of.

  6. Then the Moth-worm mounted into the breach, and bored and bored till he found himself suddenly on the outside of the mountain, and surrounded by water.

  7. For it must be remembered that the articles already found have been discovered in the narrow holes bored or dug for wells.

  8. But she must have been awfully bored with him long before.

  9. Now you've got to play to us; we are bored to death with everything we know.

  10. You were bored to death," said Genevieve, as they walked out on the road.

  11. Andrews could see the dark back of a head between bored shoulders in a woolen shirt leaning over the machine.

  12. In return for the money she received a small, round piece of metal with a hole bored through it, bearing a certain mystic legend which was to act as a talisman to the wearer.

  13. Of course she would be bored to death without it.

  14. For the Eaton railway, however, I bored out the boxes, but have not found any advantage to result.

  15. Fanny, bored by the prolonged interview, bent her neck and nibbled at a weed.

  16. She must have bored you very much," was the charming girl's comment.

  17. A daisy in the grass bored him; a gardenia emitting its strangely unreal perfume on a dung heap brought all his powers into play.

  18. Men were bored by any love that was wholly unselfish.

  19. Old Fanny bored her when she did not actively worry her.

  20. But she was angry and bored at being alone.

  21. But Beryl would surely be bored to death living the life of a hermit in Claridge's.

  22. You know that when I became enough of a man to find myself an embodied conundrum, I bored myself to the last degree by trying to find out what I meant.

  23. Playing in tree-tops and when you're bored to death, simply flying off without so much as an excuse!

  24. The tented field unfits one for the pastoral life; she found herself bored by the security and stupidity of the day on which she was entering.

  25. I am so bored with the restrictions that mamma is insisting on forever.

  26. If, at the year of release, it was the servant's choice to remain with his master, the law required his ear to be bored by the judges of the land, thus making it impossible for him to be held against his will.

  27. If, at the year of release, it was the servant's choice to remain with his master, law required his ear to be bored by the judges of the land, thus making it impossible for him to be held against his will.

  28. She is bored by things which for a time were very pleasant.

  29. They are unhappy in their own homes, because they are tired of its trivialities, tired of its little luxuries, bored to death with themselves because they have no purpose in life.

  30. You would get even more bored than before.

  31. He came to her just at that moment in the Eighth Year when she was bored to death.

  32. Ralph did not move and Jean was growing bored with her cramped position, now that events were no longer sufficiently exciting to make her forget herself.

  33. Plainly Ralph was at first simply bored by the stupid questions that his neighbor asked of him.

  34. But the Peacock was bored as full of holes as a pepper-box, and the water poured in faster than all hands could pump it out.

  35. As a result, most of British balls went whistling overhead, and pitching over the Wasp into the sea, while most of the Yankee balls swept the decks or bored into the timbers of the Frolic.

  36. They frequent the fresh holes bored by sapsuckers to drink the flowing sap and eat the insects that are attracted to it.

  37. But the gritty little general, who was bored by rebel bullets at Mission Ridge last winter, couldn't see it.

  38. The metallic fuze bored out and a paper fuze of longer time inserted.

  39. What I should like to ask the short-story writers is whether they and their readers are so bored with themselves and the people they know in the real world that they have no use for anything like its average in their fiction.

  40. In some instances the hole was bored transversely through the piece of horn, but even then, the tools are so small that they must have been used rather as knives or drawing chisels than as hatchets.

  41. Mortillet[176] thinks that some of the Swiss axes were bored in a similar manner.

  42. The sides are straight, but the faces from which the hole is bored are somewhat hollow.

  43. Bored celts, though rare in Britain, occur in Brittany[450] and other parts of France, as well as in Italy.

  44. The shaft-holes in some few perforated axes appear to have been worked out by means of such picks or chisels, the hole having been bored from opposite sides of the axe, and generally with a gradually decreasing diameter.

  45. Some of the small celts found in the Swiss lakes appear to have been rather chisels than hatchets or adzes, as they were mounted in sockets[623] bored axially in hafts of stag’s horn.

  46. In some of the genuine specimens from the peat of the valley of the Somme,[549] the stone was fixed in a socket bored in one end of the piece of stag’s horn, and the shaft was inserted in another hole bored through the horn.

  47. If so, the sides through which the hole is bored were hollow, as in Fig.

  48. He remembered once going to an opera and being awfully bored because there was such a lot of stiff music and people bawling about; only on the stage there had been a girl lying in the middle of a ring of flames.

  49. I have bored through the dreariest mountains of rubbish; I have visited Naseby Field, and how many other unintelligible fields and places; I have &c.

  50. I dare say you are a little bored occasionally with "Jesus," &c.

  51. If you are bored you have only to slip away to your most comfortable rooms.

  52. There were two other travellers in the same plight, a Mr. and Mrs. Blackie, and we sat together through that long hot day, too utterly hungry and bored even to pretend interest in each other.

  53. It is rather a bored little community, Manpur.

  54. Think how nice to be a man and not have to look pleased when one is really bored to extinction!

  55. Our way of entertaining guests is to sit close together and recall happenings, and delightedly remind each other of childish escapades, shouting hilariously, while our guests sit in a bored and puzzled silence.

  56. He had once been a common ninepin, but having had a hole bored through his middle with a red-hot wire he became possessed of a mystic power and personality.

  57. I thought from something you said in a letter that perhaps I rather bored you talking of her.

  58. How they frightened me at first; then they rather bored me; but in the last few days I've come to like them!

  59. He's doubtless old enough to be your father, and would be bored to death could he hear your nonsense about him!


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aloof; anguished; anxious; apathetic; benumbed; blase; bored; careless; cheerless; dead; debilitated; depressed; detached; disgusted; disinterested; distant; dormant; droopy; drugged; dull; enervated; grim; heavy; heedless; impassive; inanimate; incurious; indifferent; inert; jaded; joyless; lackadaisical; languid; languorous; leaden; lethargic; lifeless; listless; lumpish; mindless; moribund; nauseated; nauseous; numb; phlegmatic; pooped; regardless; revolted; sad; sated; sick; sleepy; slow; sluggish; somnolent; sophisticated; stagnant; stolid; supine; torpid; unconcerned; uneasy; unfulfilled; ungoverned; unhappy; uninterested; unmindful; unquiet; unsatisfied; vegetable; wan; weary; withdrawn