BORING in a Sentence

Learn BORING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

273 example sentences for BORING, such as:

1. The thief bore away my watch.
2. This book is really boring stuff.
3. And that, in time, becomes a bore.
4. The discussion bore against the bill.
5. The speech bore the stamp of authority.

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 Meanings and Examples of BORING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
boring
 a.  uninteresting and tiresome; dull
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The boys were enchanted, as she had intended them to be, and they hastened to apologize for boring her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediate situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  A boring matter of business, Mrs. Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  With Ellen too busy for more than a goodnight kiss and Gerald in the fields all day, Scarlett found Tara boring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  I guess I'm boring you, talking about business, Miss Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  All the things Father wanted me to do and be were such boring things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
8  The Guthries were more or less their own sort, substantial, but boring: and the girls wanted husbands.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  The house-party, as a house-party, was distinctly boring.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  He passed by the graves on the knoll and turned his head to glance at one of the older headstones, which had interested him deeply as a boy because it bore his name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  As the carriage bore her down the red road toward the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett had a feeling of guilty pleasure that neither her mother nor Mammy was with the party.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  And that, in time, becomes a bore.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  Life is not the game of life, or it will be without a single success; can't live without game, otherwise monotonous boring.
17  This book is really boring stuff.
18  His writing style is now boring and outdated.
19  The downside of the book is that it is written in a rather boring style.
20  Unintentionally boring, he wrote page after page of pedestrian prose.
21  They put on boring hearings that quickly buried the public in obscure details that had nothing to do with the simple facts.
22  Halfway through the boring lecture, Laura gave up trying to stifle her yawns.
23  However, the opposite can also be true; something that is too easily understood, simple or transparent, can also be boring.
24  He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
25  The speech bore the stamp of authority.
26  A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
27  The thief bore away my watch.
28  She disliked the president, whom she once described as an 'insufferable bore'.
29  The discussion bore against the bill.
30  This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.