How to Use tedium in a Sentence

tedium

noun

• The movie was three hours of tedium.
• I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
• By now she’s used to the tedium of people who grew up here.
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2022
• Small talk breaks out to ease the tedium of the endless hungry hours.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The tedium of the band’s hometown is not lost on Robinson.
  — Matthias Clamer, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2022
• There’s also the tedium of the long bus ride and the suspect types also on board.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
• Baked too long, the cake will burn, suspense turned to tedium.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the spells of tedium made the distress signals all the more intense.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• After a while, the drama of the traffic stop, the chase and the beating fades into the routine tedium of the job.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
• The tedium of playing 27 games of tic-tac-toe with your first-grader.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• In the midst of the lockdown, a box filled with bite-sized cakes or kitchen gadgets could really knock the wind out of the tedium.
  — Jenn McMillen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Imagine the tedium, the hovering clouds of cigar smoke and B.O.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• Step forward the WAGs, to save Brits from despair and tedium, at least for a little while.
  — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2019
• Save someone from the tedium of household chores with the clever robot.
  — Jose Ryller, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• The tedium of these lulls heightens the dread that leads up to, and lingers long after, brief glimpses of eldritch terror.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2023
• Kerr had to brainstorm how to fight through the tedium of the regular season.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• No, this year, my twins turned 6 right in the middle of the endless tedium and tragedy of the pandemic summer.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2020
• Forget the tedium of scanning one at a time and place a whole stack of prints from Polaroids to panoramas in the feeder.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• Features singing by Lykke Li, which relieves the tedium, sort of.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• What no one wants to admit is that The Discourse provides a shot in the arm that relieves the tedium of the everyday.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
• The word insurance evokes in me feelings of tedium and loathing.
  — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
• This year has a lot of us craving comfort and nostalgia—and ways to ease the tedium of making our own food all the damn time.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 16 Sep. 2020
• Things are about to become terribly bland, to the point of tedium, in the interview process.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2020
• So on behalf of all math teachers, please excuse us for drilling your younger selves on this tedium.
  — Steven Strogatz, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• For most of human history, life has been heavy with tedium and toil.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• Muted and restrained to the point of tedium, the pic offers little that's distinctive to set it apart.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
• Watt was under no illusion that a film could dwell on the ugliness and tedium of life in such camps.
  — Paul Baumann, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Forms of boredom That said, not all types of tedium are created equal.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2019
• Some of the comedy in our work is the ruthlessness of it or the tedium of what Gregg [Turkington] might be doing.
  — Chris Kopcow, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024