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 film was boring to a degree.
2. It was boring to the nth degree.
3. And that, in time, becomes a bore.
4. Every boring hour in life is unique.
5. Many diets fail because they are boring.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BORING
boring
 a.  so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
 n.  the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  A boring matter of business, Mrs. Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  I guess I'm boring you, talking about business, Miss Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  And that, in time, becomes a bore.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Marilyn Monroe: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
2  In life, then boring time, also are limited edition.
3  Not only are mothers not paid but also most of their boring or difficult work is unnoticed.
4  It was boring to the nth degree.
5  The film was boring to a degree.
6  Many diets fail because they are boring.
7  The film was so boring that I dozed off in the middle of it.
8  Every boring hour in life is unique.
9  Her husband is about the most boring person I've ever met.
10  I wore my boring, respectable suit to the interview.
11  When the options are unemployment or a boring job, having babies can seem like the only means of self-fulfilment.
12  Without the language of love, all characters are boring.
13  A newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or irrelevant.
14  She can always be relied on to provide comic relief at a boring party.
15  Instead of going to work thinking that it will be totally boring, try to be positive.