Example Sentences

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It doesn’t help that Ms. Doucet’s prose, replete with stock expressions, is tiresomely banal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

When I start going on tiresomely at parties and cookouts about my e-bike, a lot of people ask: What’s an e-bike again?

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2023

But in the second act, the dancers merely retell the lovers’ story through Chris Emile’s tiresomely obvious choreography.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

Quite honestly, by the time this muddled, overcrowded, tiresomely digressive trip finally crashes like so many post-binge hangovers, Chazelle’s point has gotten lost in a self-indulgent, manically erratic shuffle.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022

I only knew that one day, which was tiresomely like all the others before it, I sat in the Railway office, ostensibly waiting to be interviewed.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou