The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken the attention.
But, possessing all that I can want, I find one day and one hour exactly like another, except that the latter is still more tedious than the former.
It is not well to defer till middle age the period of connubial intercourse; for too tedious spinsterhood is as much calculated to hasten the decay of beauty as too early a marriage.
This is a tedious operation and requires skill and great patience to obtain satisfactory results.
It was exasperatingly tedious work, but after several days my assistant reported every margin scanned without result, while I had collected each bill and memorandum, classifying them according to date.
The examination of these men proved a very tedious business indeed, but whatever other countries may say of us, we French are patient, and if the haystack is searched long enough, the needle will be found.
The great and rich universities seldom graduated anybody but their own students, and not even these till after a long and tedious standing; five and seven years for a Master of Arts; eleven and sixteen for a Doctor of Law, Physic, or Divinity.
I hoped might put a quicker period to this tedious illness, but unluckily it has in a great measure gone off.
This is an immense subject upon which when I wrote to you last I intended to have sent you a letter of many sheets, but as I expect to see you in a few weeks I shall not trouble you with so tedious a dissertation.
When Professor Rouet of Glasgow was sent up to London a few years later to push on the tedious twenty years' lawsuit between Glasgow College and Balliol about the Snell exhibitions, the single journey cost him £11:15s.
The landlady, however, venturing a tedious remonstrance against this resolution, the dying fire again gave a momentary flash.
The hill, climbed long and painfully, rewarded us with no change of prospect; and the short descent was immediately succeeded by a more tedious climb.
Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.
I dare say she takes more pleasure in feeding her chickens than in presiding at the tedious court ceremonies.
In the same tedious manner the reply was conveyed to him and reported to De Soto.
Four days were occupied in a tedious march through a country where pathless morasses continually embarrassed their progress.
It is strong and masculine, only too tedious for impatient readers.
He had a great taste for music and poetry, and often entertained his comrades during their long and tedious hours in the garrison.
This trust was accepted, and after a tedious and uncertain journey Rev.
As was described in the case of David Thompson, this was a long and tedious journey, and yet it was at one time within the plans of the North-West Company to carry their trade thither.
It would be tedious to relate each step of the ensuing negotiations.
It was a tedious process, but apparently there was no option.
That would be a tedious process, seeing that the river twined in some parts like a corkscrew.
It has often been asserted, though on what evidence is not clear, that the larger examples were used for the performance of miniature pilgrimages in substitution for the long and tedious journeys formerly laid upon penitents.
This is frankly avowed by Stephen Switzer in his somewhat tedious "Ichnographia Rustica," published in 1742.
It waxes tedious when put into words--loses color and flavor, like a pressed flower.
One wearies of rooms that are in any way ostentatious; proclamation of simplicity is as tedious as proclamation of pretentiousness.
How tedious now appeared the labors of their half-savage life!
It would be a tedious task to enter into a detail of the disputes which arose in Washington's Cabinet, nor is it necessary to do so.
Everything was soon in motion; the artillery began its tedious and difficult march through the mountains; the infantry made their way in the best manner they could, and the cavalry were seen in unconnected groups all over the plain.
I had passed ten long and tediousdays in my hiding-place without the smallest tidings from the mollah Nadân.
They had nothing to say to each other, and he was astedious as her husband had been.
It would take somewhat longer than by the desert route, but he preferred it as being less tedious and much more interesting.
Short as was the distance between the ship and the shore, the journey was unutterably tedious owing to the terrific heat.
The ceremony soon became tedious and the crowded room was hot and stuffy.
It reminds a person of those dentists who secure your instant and breathless interest in a tooth by taking a grip on it with the forceps, and then stand there and drawl through a tedious anecdote before they give the dreaded jerk.
The various words used in building them are in the dictionary, but in a very scattered condition; so you can hunt the materials out, one by one, and get at the meaning at last, but it is a tedious and harassing business.
A detachment of guides went up, but by the time they had made the tedious trip and reached the cabin, a raging storm had set in.
Boswell's French in this tediousnote is left as he printed it.
His pious and patient endurance of a tedious illness, ending in an exemplary death, confirmed the strong impression his merit had made upon the mind of Mr. Johnson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tedious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
