How to Use bored in a Sentence

bored

adjective
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  • Maynard was very bored, and just peeked through the door.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Both the Cataract and the shops that sprang up around it served as an amusement park for the rich and bored.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
  • When even the host seems bored, a little chaos can go a long way.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Four year old Prince Charles looked bored throughout the event.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 July 2022
  • There wasn’t a bored face in the crowd at the recent painting session.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, the brand suffered the fate of every fad: The cool kids grew bored with it.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Team after good team slaps the Heat around and the Heat attitude is a bored yawn.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In this case, a 27-year-old is bored, scrolling through his phone while avoiding studying for the LSATs.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • This sounds like the daydream of a mega-rich, very bored content creator.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Sure, some may find all the LEDs gaudy, and others will get bored with them after a few days.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2022
  • And as Meehan notes, some artists are simply bored on the road; the events bring some welcome fun.
    — Leena Tailor, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The same study found that bored workers are twice as likely to leave the company.
    — Peter Stewart, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Younger kids may find tiny Lego-style blocks to be too difficult to use and get bored with them.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Alyssa Thomas quickly grew bored with the line of questioning.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But this cheating scandal dropped like a bomb on the fan base that had largely grown bored with the franchise.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The famed McDonald’s devotee is not bored—at least yet.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 5 Apr. 2023
  • That and nobody having the forethought to put a bored, lonely, nothing-to-do Tom Brady in a spot.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Remember to vary the route and keep the walks interesting so your dog doesn't get bored.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • It’s like the Make-A-Wish Foundation for bored musicians.
    — Hannah Murphy Winter, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2022
  • Broker Mary Ellen Cashman says some of her clients are bored of the safe black-and-white finishes.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2023
  • There were times in the middle of a 29-3 season that Giles felt his group, coming off two straight Open titles, was bored.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In one of the photos, her 6-year-old daughter, Chanel is sitting in a stroller, looking a little bored.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 24 May 2022
  • Any suggestions on how to get a bored but stubborn elder to think outside the box?
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Some had been freestylers or backstrokers who grew bored of swimming in straight lines.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Not long ago, Aparicio couldn’t even walk his dog without feeling bored enough to pull out his iPhone and start scrolling.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Even when telling his darkest jokes, Jeselnik wears a wry smirk and sounds almost bored, which is part of why the jokes work.
    — Brad Locke, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the target audience is now bored of going through that lengthy process.
    — Amit Samsukha, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Former baseball great Alex Rodriguez looked bored, and who could blame him?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2022
  • Disruption is an ethos for the bored, for people who live in reasonable climates and don't have tanks in the street.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • At Kriens, the bored operator points to the rows of lonely cable cars purring on the conveyor belt.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022

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