How to Use bored in a Sentence

bored

adjective
  • Learn more about why kids get bored at school and how to help.
    — Amanda Morin, Parents, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Wouldn’t the fans be too bored during that time?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • For us, this was a fun pastimes for bored teens.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The man lies on the bed and reads, while the woman grows bored.
    — Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
  • When even the host seems bored, a little chaos can go a long way.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Their Cups might be on the line, but frankly many of them look bored.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • But few of the people who watched the games could claim to have been bored.
    — M.j., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The Nuggets’ support staff was not bored yet.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Feeling bored does not mean you are broken.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • My hands are bored, my heart’s worn out, to say nothing about how my legs feel.
    — Marshall Yarbrough, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • LinkedIn users are bored of their feeds (and vocal about it).
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That didn’t work out so well when the bored kid annexed Crimea.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
  • The rest of the class quickly grows bored with this whole pantomime.
    — Domenico Starnone, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Our servers were on edge from making no money; the cooks were bored.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • If this falls by the wayside, your pup may be bored or anxious.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • At times, the crowd grew restless and bored, and some left early.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
  • These dumb little kids were freaking bored.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
  • People get bored of each other.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There are people who can go to a march and just feel bored and annoyed and go home.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Four year old Prince Charles looked bored throughout the event.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 23 July 2022
  • The best thing to do is have short but frequent sessions, so your dog doesn't get bored.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2021
  • When the scene gets boring, Sterlin just gets so bored.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Katey got bored after about 20 minutes and went to her room.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The men are blithe or harried or roguish, and the women seem so bored!
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
  • There wasn’t a bored face in the crowd at the recent painting session.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • So, zip it and let the bored people in your life figure it out for themselves.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The club soon grew as others who were bored with their routines began to join.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • Cats are moody creatures that can get bored easily from the same old, same old.
    — Christine Persaud, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The guards here are bored too, scoping out the women, brazenly.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018

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