How to Use bore in a Sentence

bore

1 of 2 verb

• Davis and his crew got bored and went to the liquor store.
  — Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
• Nobody should be bored with that.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2026
• And, my life has not been boring at all.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
• Its wood is so dense that pests can’t bore into it.
  — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
• The first instinct when bored at work is to search for a new job.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• My problem with them is that those recipes are boring.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2025
• But most of the shows border on boring.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• The problem is, she’d be bored not working.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 May 2026
• Getting bored with rewearing the same pair of jeans over and over again?
  — Sydney Pulaski, Glamour, 8 May 2026
• The course itself won’t bore longtime golfers.
  — Kansas City Star, 4 Dec. 2025
• Dressing for your nine-to-five doesn’t have to be boring this spring.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2026
• Life has been boring without you.
  — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
• In other words, don’t bore the viewers.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
• Basic doesn't have to mean boring.
  — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 5 Feb. 2026
• Draft for ceiling, not for boring.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• There's nothing boring about this bob.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2026
• Not all the shoes in your arsenal have to be boring.
  — Amanda Le, InStyle, 2 Jan. 2026
• But either way, the rest of this series will be far from boring.
  — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
• How come laptops are just boring silver and black and not neon green?
  — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
• Staying inside can be far from boring with these great toys for all ages.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• Denji is bored out of his mind by most of them, but the last film is good enough to move him to tears.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
• There’s nothing boring about this.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 3 Mar. 2026
• There's nothing boring about this.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
• The staff had bored holes in the nearby ice to set nets for whitefish and turbot.
  — Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
• Draw cross lines through the indents, and use the doweling jig to bore the holes.
  — Rosario Capotosto, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2021
• Who said period pieces have to be boring?
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
• Chicken for dinner doesn't have to be boring.
  — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
• No more wasting, but no getting bored either.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
• While practical, this find is far from boring.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
• The brand is classic but never boring.
  — Libby Page, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025

bore

2 of 2 noun

• After the strike the fish bore away but then came topside to jump.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2026
• Friends drift in and out of her life; her actual job is a bore.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Tidal bores are strong tides that occur when a river meets the ocean.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• The anatomy bore hairs, sometimes teeth.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• Of course, a show in which everyone gets along would be a giant bore.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• There’s more to cleaning a gun than running a bore snake through the barrel.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• Her light blue eyes bore, laser-like, into Vivian's.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
• The closing is necessary so crews can dig a bore pit for a new sewer line.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
• Those remains bore the marks of a skilled woodsman and ritual sadist.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
• No mystery waits inside the darkness of these bore holes, only dead wood.
  — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
• Beauty’s spring sale season bore fruit for more than a few players, data shows.
  — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
• Schumer in particular bore the brunt of Democrats’ rage.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, The Hill, 9 Nov. 2025
• After that, the phone bore no more location data.
  — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
• But after a gutsy buildup, the love story is mostly predictable and a bore.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
• You’ll get stuck with a bore or have to pivot quickly from perilous politics.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• On the walls, large pieces of paper bore descriptions of the previous day’s trips.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• Games that are too easy bore older players, while overly complex games can frustrate younger ones.
  — Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
• This portion, sometimes referred to as the skirt, will expand when the pellet is fired to seal against the bore.
  — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
• But the Ashes in Australia for decades has been one-sided and, quite frankly, a bore.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Although refined needn’t mean broke or being a bore, heaven forbid.
  — Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
• Under the wrong circumstances, shooting that scene could've been an endless bore.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• But since June—some could argue since March—top dog Bitcoin has been kind of a bore.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 17 Aug. 2023
• At least one bore of the tunnels will remain open in each direction during the closure.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
• This civic attitude kicked into high gear as ICE bore down on the state.
  — Eric Roper, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
• If the latest Pulitzer Prize winner feels like a bore, that’s OK!
  — Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 23 Aug. 2025
• Anyone who thinks English Heritage sites are run by bores is in for a surprise.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
• One of the complicating factors is the staircase bore the brunt of a lot of the water damage.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
• Also as a place to be serious, even while joking, to the point that everything became a bore.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• Blanca Quinonez knows only one way to play, with full- bore, hit-the-floor intensity.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2026
• Ryder can make even the dumbest bit of dialogue sing, but her character, as written, is a bore.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022