How to Use boredom in a Sentence

boredom

noun

• On days when few customers came to shop, Bob felt overwhelmed by boredom.
• Use these ideas to break up the monotony of the brown bag boredom.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• Amanda didn’t like the boredom that is sometimes the life of a goalie.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• Who has been such a folk hero of workaday boredom and 9 to 5 drudgery?
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
• Sometimes the best cure for boredom is leaving the house.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• But that doesn’t have to mean boredom for you and your household.
  — Rachel Moskowitz, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• In the aughts, a friend who'd moved from Paris nearly went crazy with boredom and fled.
  — Jason Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2021
• Anything to fight the boredom and fill the ride, fill our lives, with details.
  — Boots Riley, HWD, 2 July 2018
• Some chose to make the best of the boredom, choreographing TikTok dances to fill the time.
  — Frankie Adkins, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• Waiting for our flight in the airport, my boyfriend and I snack out of boredom.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 23 Sep. 2022
• He was drawn into the work of the hospital out of boredom.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• As the heat pounds, the girls fend off boredom with the slouchy aimlessness that leads to scrapes and escapes.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
• To escape the boredom of real life, Tom often goes to the movies.
  — Kathy Cichon, Elgin Courier-News, 2 May 2018
• Pure boredom did, too, though, so there was a balance to find.
  — Camille Bordas, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• Just out of boredom, Frodo tears off a piece from a loaf of bread, puts it on a stick and holds it over the fire.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Rome is the city to escape from stress, boredom and Parisian melancholy.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
• Use these workout hacks to push your body past plateaus (and boredom).
  — Adrienne Jordan, GQ, 22 May 2018
• Each of the apps on my home screen seemed to promise only more boredom.
  — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
• This means that the passengers are doomed to deal with their own boredom.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
• The project was born out of boredom and a way to keep a 13-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother busy while stuck at home.
  — oregonlive, 19 May 2020
• For the rest of us, that was a lot of unnecessary boredom.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2019
• Creatives can shake the boredom and push the limits by seeing in new ways.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Over that time, Ginny talked about the utter boredom of life in Dolor compared to the rest of the world.
  — Hazlitt, 25 Jan. 2023
• But a workout can kill only so many hours of boredom in a day.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
• In Eden-Olympia, as in the high-rise, opulence yields glazed boredom.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• To stave off boredom, Mata would draw on a napkin with a pen.
  — Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2022
• An event in the larger world today could free you from a rut of boredom with your job and your home life.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• And since there are 634 pieces, there's no chance of boredom ever settling in.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
• Spiers: 7 — Some memorable stages and a first week that will be hard to top, but Pogacar’s dominance and his apparent boredom in week three brought things down a notch or two.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 July 2025
• These dogs will need a lot of entertainment throughout the day to avoid boredom, which can lead to destructive behaviors.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025