Examples of wearisome in a Sentence
We had to listen to the usual wearisome complaints.
Her stories can get a little wearisome.
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Salieri, despite Bettany’s compelling performance, is a wearisome figure consumed by jealousy while clearly toiling under a storm of religious psychosis.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
8 May 2026
The journey is less wearisome for self-mortifiers who never considered democracy (a word seldom spoken on the podcast) all that important in the first place.
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George Packer,
The Atlantic,
4 May 2026
For all its virtues, Galvagnon tells me the journey to build Captain Arctic was wearisome.
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Dea Jusufi,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
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Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
8 May 2026
The journey is less wearisome for self-mortifiers who never considered democracy (a word seldom spoken on the podcast) all that important in the first place.
—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
4 May 2026
For all its virtues, Galvagnon tells me the journey to build Captain Arctic was wearisome.
—
Dea Jusufi,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
—
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wearisome
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“Wearisome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wearisome. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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wearisome
adjective
wea·ri·some
ˈwir-ē-səm 
: causing weariness : tiresome
a wearisome lecture
wearisomely
adverb
wearisomeness
noun
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