How to Use bored in a Sentence

bored

adjective

• Your child may complain of being bored or say school is too easy.
  — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 30 July 2024
• His first wife, Jane Wyman, had gotten bored with him and walked out, taking their two children with her.
  — Karen Tumulty, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• Their blood suckers are a little bitter, a little bored, and, for such ancient beings, very, very stupid.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• After 30 minutes, M. gets bored of looking at stories in her room and comes out.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024
• The pandemic left many people confined to their homes, bored and with plenty of food and little to distract them.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• Kids who are decked out in marching-band outfits look bored, while folks in everyday wear seem ecstatic to be noticed.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
• There are things that computers can do that are better than humans because, frankly, computers don't get bored.
  — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Make sure to get a variety of toys — chew toys, chew bones, tennis balls, puzzle toys, treat toys and plush toys — in case your puppy gets bored with one or two toys.
  — Stephanie Shipman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• When Covid-19 struck, the bored and the homebound alike sought refuge in entertainment online.
  — John Kang, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Mutts’ fiancé, a videographer/photographer, was bored and looking for something to shoot.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2021
• Meeting attendees are often off camera or are on camera looking bored and even visibly frustrated while on mute.
  — Dave MacLeod, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Henry, a junior, came up with the idea while sitting at home in March feeling a bit helpless and bored while everyone was locked down with the state’s stay-at-home order.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• The Covid-era mania for cryptocurrencies and digital tokens shows how bored elites have already bought everything.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• The end result is a sizable cohort of young people stranded at home, bored and alienated, with a multitude of qualifications and nothing to do with them.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2021
• And on top of that there's always fear that an owner could suddenly decide their hobby needs to make real money and impose painful measures as a result — or simply get bored and sell the company.
  — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• All the while, a bored and isolated American public has grown increasingly resentful of them, tracking and recording every misstep on screens large and small.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Vienna in the 1990s seemed bored with itself, cynically content to profit from the art and ideas of a more vibrant era, one that fascism had snuffed out six decades before.
  — John Wray, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2021
• 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
• At times, the crowd grew restless and bored, and some left early.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• 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
• There have to be others in your group who are just as bored and fed up as you.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• Lean Into The Boredom Be bored and put your phone away.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Team after good team slaps the Heat around and the Heat attitude is a bored yawn.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• After all, in March 2020, many of us felt lonely and bored.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 19 June 2021
• The men are blithe or harried or roguish, and the women seem so bored!
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
• The kids are bored and go running around, and there’s the focus group guy who jumps out from behind the shelf.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024