How to Use bore in a Sentence

bore

1 of 2 noun

• Friends drift in and out of her life; her actual job is a bore.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Tidal bores are strong tides that occur when a river meets the ocean.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• It’s said that Charles Dickens would allow no stranger to be a bore.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• There’s more to cleaning a gun than running a bore snake through the barrel.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• But the Ashes in Australia for decades has been one-sided and, quite frankly, a bore.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Of course, a show in which everyone gets along would be a giant bore.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• But since June—some could argue since March—top dog Bitcoin has been kind of a bore.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Aztecs weren't much better at shooting, but this game could turn into a bore-fest if the teams can't put the ball in the basket.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• Of the 48 originals on the group’s first five releases, 37 bore Sweet’s name alone.
  — Arsenio Orteza, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
• This portion, sometimes referred to as the skirt, will expand when the pellet is fired to seal against the bore.
  — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
• One of the complicating factors is the staircase bore the brunt of a lot of the water damage.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
• At the final stop is the bore sighting, where the accuracy of the K9’s gun is tested on a target at the far end of the workspace.
  — Gawon Bae, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
• See some fun holiday advice from Law Roach: More is more, and less is a bore.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
• The closing is necessary so crews can dig a bore pit for a new sewer line.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
• On the walls, large pieces of paper bore descriptions of the previous day’s trips.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• In real life, the United States' flag bore only 48 stars to represent the country's 48 states at the time.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• But after a gutsy buildup, the love story is mostly predictable and a bore.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
• You’ll get stuck with a bore or have to pivot quickly from perilous politics.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• Compared to other big bore air rifles currently on the market, Umarex did a good job keeping the size and weight down.
  — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
• Regardless of the poor quality and distortion, the waves look like a tidal bore, Girton said.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• Also as a place to be serious, even while joking, to the point that everything became a bore.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• The bore of the cannon was widened, as was a common practice at the time to alter cannons to discharge heavier balls or canisters.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• Under the wrong circumstances, shooting that scene could've been an endless bore.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• These amounts were very low and the last one bore an interest rate of 12%, double the rate of the November and December notes, which had interest rates of 6% each.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
• That genealogy may well have dictated the pushrod setup as well as the tight bore spacing that forces the LS1 engine to have a smaller bore and longer stroke than the old V-8.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Ryder can make even the dumbest bit of dialogue sing, but her character, as written, is a bore.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• And even Lottie offering her own blood as a sacrifice while out on the hunt bore nothing fruitful.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• His allies felt that Garcetti’s nature didn’t mesh with the small bore, back-to-basics rhetoric that launched his administration.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Led by Chris Rock, that entry bore few connections to the existing series.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 29 July 2023
• By its presence, the fog signaled that the windless air bore a heavy burden of water vapor, sometimes condensing into droplets, sometimes about to do so.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023

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bore

2 of 2 verb

• There’s no way you can be bored over the next few days.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Draw cross lines through the indents, and use the doweling jig to bore the holes.
  — Rosario Capotosto, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2021
• There are 2000 questions so plenty to keep you amused, so will take you an age to get bored.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
• In the halls of Congress, lawmakers, frankly, get bored.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The denial — a single sentence that didn’t address any of Brown’s claims — bore the names of three judges.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Poojary stood in the heat, mostly bored as his hero spoke about the economy.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The best thing about planks, though, is that there are so many variations out there to keep you from getting bored.
  — Women's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
• The female beetle bores a tiny, round hole on the underside of a twig and lays eggs inside.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• There’s no way any plant lover can be bored this month — check out the activities on Nov. 4 alone!
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Plus, with a variety of flavors to choose from, your dog will never get bored.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• Staying inside can be far from boring with these great toys for all ages.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• What happens is when the other kids want to come over to her house—they are bored by their less flashy playtime options and toys.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• Most of the cats seemed to get bored with the game quickly, usually fetching fewer than 10 times in a session.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• Here, a bit more about how to make garlic butter shrimp and what to serve with it so that you're never bored by this seafood dinner.
  — Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
• Hide and seek, chew toys, and indoor quality time will help keep your pet from being bored.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• This is, in effect, an effort to make public health boring again.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
• Constellation hits the ground running so quickly there’s no time, at first, to be bored.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
• So during the pandemic, everybody was just home, bored, all of that.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
• In the hands of a lesser actor, the extended scene would surely bore audiences to tears.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 July 2021
• Draw them in with an engaging document, not a dry thesis ready to bore.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• There's way more to do than just boring skipping in place, so spice up your routines with these variations.
  — Men's Health, 2 May 2023
• Racing toward an upshift, such an engine made a sound like an alien power drill boring to the center of the earth.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Mar. 2023
• As the two enjoy some father-daughter time on the water (and try not to be bored), Raylan's phone begins buzzing with news of Boyd's escape.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• As soon as Hadden left the room, Monson felt the assistant’s eyes boring into her.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 15 Sep. 2023
• George Eliot sometimes bores me, especially the George Eliot draped in greatness.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Another summer day had gone by in Spencer, Indiana, and Hellen Guthrie was bored.
  — Jenna Watson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2023
• These bolts thread into the block down near the main-bearing web to minimize distortion of the cylinders bores when they are tightened.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Closer inspection revealed that the marks were tiny holes bored into the hollow bones, and that one of the ends of the intact flute had been carved into a mouthpiece.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Single parents would probably love the space to just be bored but often don't have the luxury.
  — Sydney Baker, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2023
• Champion Girls Sports Bra: Basic doesn’t mean boring with this sports bra.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024