Sample Sentences fortedium (auto-selected)
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The tedium of sea search made practical joking irresistible.† (source)
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They deserved some fun after the tedium of digging their way into Loki's cavern.† (source)
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And for all his efforts he had been rewarded with a life of uninterrupted tedium.† (source)
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Tedium was closing in from all directions.† (source)
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But instead I'm numb with the tedium of a hard life.† (source)
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For students the age of my Bishop Strachan girls to spend seven weeks of the summer memorizing The Medea and The Trojan Women must have been an exercise in tedium—and one that risked disabusing the youngsters of their infatuation with the stage.† (source)
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Either way, my apartment required a good showerhead and lots of scalding water to erase the flipping-burger tedium.† (source)
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I did jumping jacks and pushups and stood on my head in the little shack to break the tedium, but too much solitude rots the brain.† (source)
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Yet, hours into the night, I lay awake arguing with myself: relentless tedium, back and forth, what if, what if, what harm could it do?† (source)
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Dutchy tells me about the tedium of life on board—how his best friend from their basic training days, another Minnesotan named Jim Daly, has taught him to play poker, and they spend long hours below decks with a revolving cast of servicemen in an endless ongoing game.† (source)
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And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace, less virtuous, motives of course for some Everesters myriad other came into play, as well: minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre.† (source)
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Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?† (source)
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Well, I saw it was all up with Mr. Huxley for the evening, and I must say I had reached a point of tedium when any interruption was welcome.† (source)
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There was something glad in your glance, and genial in your manner, when you conversed: I saw you had a social heart; it was the silent schoolroom — it was the tedium of your life — that made you mournful.† (source)
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As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.† (source)
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But, in the end, even that distraction with no expectation only increased the tedium.† (source)
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