Examples of tiresome in a Sentence
All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while.
what a tiresome church service that turned out to be
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This person has been nothing but kind to us in all our years of knowing them, but the awkward gift exchange is getting tiresome.
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R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
The more trenchant critique, surely, is that the entwining of art and life has become a tiresome conceit, predicated on the bland notion that all great fiction must have an autobiographical component and a therapeutic aim.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
That the music doesn’t grow tiresome or annoying is a feat in and of itself, but each new bout against the sirens deepens my appreciation for their songs.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
These lazy, tiresome, played out lies are both unacceptable and unsurprising.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
The more trenchant critique, surely, is that the entwining of art and life has become a tiresome conceit, predicated on the bland notion that all great fiction must have an autobiographical component and a therapeutic aim.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
That the music doesn’t grow tiresome or annoying is a feat in and of itself, but each new bout against the sirens deepens my appreciation for their songs.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
These lazy, tiresome, played out lies are both unacceptable and unsurprising.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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“Tiresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiresome. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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tiresome
adjective
tire·some
ˈtī(ə)r-səm 
: likely to tire one because of length or dullness : boring
a tiresome lecture
tiresomely
adverb
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