tedious

in a sentence

But it would be boring to go through all the tedious details of all the changes in their lives.  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question… Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

A few of them spontaneously began to wrestle — the gym, instead of being tedious, was suddenly fun, because of the battle to come.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

For several days both sides made speeches, long-winded, tediously poetic, all lies, and then, with much soft weeping and sniffling, the Scyldings loaded up Wealtheow and the lesser beauties, made a few last touching observations, and went home.†  (source) John Gardner, Grendel, 1971

The tediousness and pain of these hours upon the rock grew only the greater as the day went on; the rock getting still the hotter and the sun fiercer.†  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, 1886

The Reverend took a long time unwindin' this morning, he's not usually so tedious.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

From the open door came the delicious aromas of several exotic brews and the music of a lone guitarist playing a New Age tune that was mellow and relaxing though filled with tediously repetitive chords.†  (source) Dean Koontz, Sole Survivor, 1997

And it isn't much inconvenience, either, to have one drop of water fall on your head; yet the worst torture of the inquisition is produced by drop after drop, drop after drop, falling moment after moment, with monotonous succession, on the same spot; and work, in itself not hard, becomes so, by being pressed, hour after hour, with unvarying, unrelenting sameness, with not even the consciousness of free-will to take from its tediousness.†  (source) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

The thought of spending the rest of the day copying out the tedious Book of Numbers sobered me deeply as I watched my father go.  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

* * * * * But I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850

Only, to alleviate the tediousness of the duty, Athos allowed him to take a loaf, two cutlets, and a bottle of wine.†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

It seems the notion of becoming a missionary struck her one evening she was getting ready for yet another tedious date, and lay in the tub thinking a convent would be better than the castle in which she lived.  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982