Example Sentences

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"Playing DDR is always fun for me," he told BBC News, "so this challenge was best described as tediously joyful".

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Filing your tax return serves as an annual reminder of just how tediously complex the American tax code is — and this year is no exception.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

He could make one perhaps from wood and then no one would have to tediously turn the spit by hand.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson