How to Use tedious in a Sentence

tedious

adjective

• The work is tedious, but it needs to get done.
• He made a tedious 45-minute speech.
• The work had been tense and tedious.
  — John Miller, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
• Part of him wanted to stay on the tedious track.
  — ABC News, 26 May 2026
• Home runs are one way (though purists find too many as tedious as none at all).
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• Weeks like this can be tedious, from a been-there, done-that point of view.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2022
• The details of the killing felt tedious at times.
  — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• Cutting with a dull blade does more than make prep work tedious.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
• Glass said the days-long filming process was tedious.
  — Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
• That is why the giants have turned to banks to do the tedious bits.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• The live feed is, for the most part, tedious and mind-numbing.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022
• And even though this tedious task can be a headache, oh, the rewards!
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 9 Dec. 2022
• No one wants to do the tedious work that runs for only eight months of the year.
  — Ryan Marshall, The (salisbury, USA TODAY, 4 May 2018
• Where are the lengthy, the tedious, the why-is-this taking-so-long flights?
  — Devon Ivie, CNT, 27 Sep. 2017
• Over the long term, using a smart speaker as a timer gets tedious.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Are there tweaks that can be applied to make a fresh reboot less tedious?
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• The care and feeding of a human soul, tedious?
  — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
• Amazon was the most tedious in terms of clicks required to get through the process.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• The battle, like his comeback from surgery on his right knee, is tedious.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2019
• This ensures a more seamless process rather than a tedious back-and-forth.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 12 June 2023
• Using both — as in he or she and him or her — is abhorred as clunky and tedious.
  — Time, 17 Jan. 2020
• All of this is tedious and time-consuming.
  — Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• When the shells cling and tear away chunks of egg white, what should be a quick task turns into a tedious project.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
• Someone too lazy to do it the old tedious way invents the future.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
• This license amounts to full approval, and is, in essence, a far longer and more tedious process.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 July 2021
• So that process is just extremely tedious.
  — Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
• What once felt tedious now feels essential.
  — Fern Lebo, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
• But the key to making said shoe journey a little less tedious?
  — Eva Thomas, PEOPLE.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• Finding romance can feel like a tedious business in any part of the world.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 6 Sep. 2024
• There is glamour to be found in even the most tedious of surroundings.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2024