Examples of tiresome in a Sentence
All those stories about his childhood can become tiresome after a while.
what a tiresome church service that turned out to be
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Emily Burns, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
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—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Emily Burns, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Even after the online arguments about Beyoncé’s influences and ideology became tiresome, Cowboy Carter’s music remained grander and weirder than discourse could capture.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Tiresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiresome. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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tiresome
adjective
tire·some
ˈtī(ə)r-səm 
: likely to tire one because of length or dullness : boring
a tiresome lecture
tiresomely
adverb
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