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.
  • Of course, the tedium is the point.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Baked too long, the cake will burn, suspense turned to tedium.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Small talk breaks out to ease the tedium of the endless hungry hours.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For many fliers, tedium is the worst part of being stuck in coach on an ultra-long flight.
    — Barbara Peterson, CNT, 13 July 2017
  • Finding any one number takes a bit of guesswork and a lot of tedium.
    — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • There’s also the tedium of the long bus ride and the suspect types also on board.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
  • But the spells of tedium made the distress signals all the more intense.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • For most of human history, life has been heavy with tedium and toil.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • 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
  • Save someone from the tedium of household chores with the clever robot.
    — Jose Ryller, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The word insurance evokes in me feelings of tedium and loathing.
    — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
  • The tedium of playing 27 games of tic-tac-toe with your first-grader.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Enthusiasm aside, the tedium of those first few weeks was tough.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Kerr had to brainstorm how to fight through the tedium of the regular season.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Long-distance truckers have for decades used them to tolerate the tedium of the road.
    — Paul Tough Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Then, in the waterfront wind and chill, would come the tedium of waiting for the concrete to set.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Forms of boredom That said, not all types of tedium are created equal.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The energy of dance, the rhythmic movements, and the respite from the noise and tedium of life, feed my soul.
    — Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Features singing by Lykke Li, which relieves the tedium, sort of.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Don’t let tedium drain your energy!
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Things are about to become terribly bland, to the point of tedium, in the interview process.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 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
  • This watercolor highlights the beauty of that process, with none of the tedium.
    — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 19 Nov. 2020
  • 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

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