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Example sentences for "tiresome"

Lexicographically close words:
tiredness; tireless; tirelessly; tirer; tires; tiresomely; tiresomeness; tireur; tireurs; tirewoman
  1. Drive fast, now, for pity's sake; and let us get rid of the tiresome ones.

  2. There were others who were all tiresome in their respective ways; and one after the other they climbed up.

  3. Sophia Jane neither answered or took the least notice; but as this was often a tiresome way of hers Susan was not surprised, and only repeated a little louder: "Here's your money!

  4. The moment Monsieur was gone she was the old Sophia Jane again, tiresome and disobedient as ever.

  5. You must have been very unkind and tiresome to vex her so much.

  6. But it will be a tiresome affair to furnish such a wilderness.

  7. After all, it is a tiresome idea," said the painter.

  8. Alexander the Great was no longer a tiresome person in a book, who cried in an absurd way when there was nothing left to conquer.

  9. That journey from Newcastle to Bergen, from Bergen to Torneo, from Torneo to Petrograd is a tiresome business.

  10. Private affairs of an especially tiresome kind filled my days--I saw neither Lawrence nor Vera, and, during that period, I scarcely left my rooms.

  11. His one anxiety was lest Sacha should be hindered from her usual shopping on the morrow, it being May Day, when there would be processions and other tiresome things.

  12. After all, it was a long tiresome journey, and anything was better than having no one to talk to.

  13. It is all still the same tiresome and antiquated game of continental Big Powers.

  14. In this exegesis, EU enlargement has already degenerated into the same tiresome and antiquated mercantilist game among 19th century continental Big Powers.

  15. He is really not a tiresome kind of boy, I must say.

  16. How tiresome it is to be high in the scale (and human)!

  17. The long, tiresome sea voyage being over, the sight of this picturesque city, nestling so cozily at the foot of Table Mountain, is one long to be remembered.

  18. He would accept no compensation for his long and tiresome journey.

  19. One forgets the long and tiresome walk if he finds eager and interested listeners at the end.

  20. As, however, both men and animals needed rest, after their long tiresome trip from Villavicencio, it was deemed best to defer our departure until the following morning.

  21. At present it takes six days to make the trip, and a very trying and tiresome one it is.

  22. Moreover, it was the day after a festival, a tiresome day for every one, and above all for the magistrate who is charged with sweeping away all the filth, properly and figuratively speaking, which a festival day produces in Paris.

  23. Much of the tiresome labor of bread-making can be avoided if one is supplied with some convenient table similar to the one represented in the cut, wherein the needed material and utensils may be kept in readiness at all times.

  24. August Roth is employed at the car barn in this city, cleaning out cars (which is very tiresome work,) from 6 p.

  25. He realized that it would be a long and tiresome trip, and his natural independence was exhibited in thus arranging beforehand for the help he might require, lest he might be regarded as a public burden.

  26. Subjects that I feel will never be of the slightest interest or consequence to me have been insisted upon with almost tiresome reiteration.

  27. He is now well-informed and tiresome on most topics.

  28. He found most girls and women tiresome after a short acquaintance.

  29. Some one was always muttering this tiresome exclamation, as if there was any special point in it.

  30. And so she escaped that tiresome flax-spinning.

  31. Gaudissart talks of coming round every day, and every morning the tiresome management gets hold of him.

  32. On earth, the righteous person is the sufficiently tiresome Grandison, for whom the very Venus of the Crosswords is sexless.

  33. But passion will dictate to you, even better than the Meditation, the various resources of conjugal tyranny, and we will here cut short these tiresome instructions.

  34. Really, Mr. Vyse had the art of placing one in the most tiresome positions.

  35. Chapter XIII: How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview!

  36. How Miss Bartlett's Boiler Was So Tiresome XIV.

  37. Lucy fidgeted; it was tiresome of Charlotte to have stopped exactly where she did.

  38. You haven't seen her lately, and don't realize how tiresome she can be, though so good.

  39. Perhaps you may be allowed to remain here, though that tiresome man does so teaze me about singing.

  40. She has the most tiresome style of prettiness that can be conceived, with that alabaster paleness, that petrifying calmness of manner, and a heart like a cucumber!

  41. I remember once being obliged, when wearing it, to dance three times and go to supper with stupid, tiresome Lord Wigton!

  42. He kept down with difficulty the exclamation which he inwardly added, "If you only knew what a relief it is to see you for once, without that intrusive, tiresome bunch of children!

  43. She was not rebellious at the dusty, tiresome task, nor aware of the merciless heat of the early-summer sun.

  44. In the middle of the winter Vronsky spent a very tiresome week.

  45. He sat down with a smile, facing her, felt her pulse, and again began asking her tiresome questions.

  46. She did not sleep well, and is dreadfully tiresome today," said Dolly.

  47. If Levin could have understood why, just as he saw why one can only approach the booking office of a railway station in single file, it would not have been so vexatious and tiresome to him.

  48. But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna.

  49. Her husband was simply a superfluous and tiresome person.

  50. Not sleepy, Aunt Ailie; only it is such a tiresome long day when the Colonel does not come in.

  51. It was only a chance; he just brought over a message about that tiresome bazaar that has been dinned into our ears for the last three months.

  52. O Aunt Ermine, then you think it tiresome too.

  53. But I hadn't been playing; I was tired to death over that dirty old closet and that tiresome shoe bag, and my hair all hooked up.

  54. His obscurity is sometimes tiresome and unnecessary, and many of his allegories and symbols are incomprehensible without an external key to their meaning.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiresome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.