How to Use wearisome in a Sentence

wearisome

adjective
  • We had to listen to the usual wearisome complaints.
  • Her stories can get a little wearisome.
  • That stuff has been wearisome (that’s putting it mildly) to Giants brass.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The endless fighting between the league and the players is so wearisome.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Sometimes this soundtrack gets slightly repetitive, a bit wearisome.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The hybrid experience has grown wearisome since the binge-Zoom years of the pandemic.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • In the wake of his death, one last cycle of Mad Mike indignation churned though all of its wearisome life phases.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Attempting to dispute Winkler’s case at every turn would be wearisome for all concerned.
    — David Ellis, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
  • For all its virtues, Galvagnon tells me the journey to build Captain Arctic was wearisome.
    — Dea Jusufi, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The characters’ strict adherence to their roles—brave woman, careless man—becomes wearisome.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Throw in an ongoing pandemic and other wearisome events during the past few years, and traumatic stress can compound.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.
    — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • But the movie's relentless quippage grows wearisome, even borderline desperate.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Zendaya is on form, but the intrigue at the heart of the film becomes wearisome, said Dan Hitchens in The Spectator.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 2 May 2024
  • Unfortunately, as is so often the case with this type of fare, the final act features a plethora of extended fight and chase scenes that quickly prove wearisome.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022
  • This year’s team will be anything but wearisome, and watching them will be anything but drudgery, and doesn’t that already feel like a cool October breeze cutting through stale summer air?
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Advertisement Riding this team’s annual shooting star has become wearisome.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This bulging, precarious load is part of our collective memory of deprivation, connoting wearisome toil, hasty migration or both.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Salieri, despite Bettany’s compelling performance, is a wearisome figure consumed by jealousy while clearly toiling under a storm of religious psychosis.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • Today’s wearisome culture skirmish concerns Hogwarts Legacy, a Harry Potter video game.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Almost any other programmer would have insisted on hour installments, which would have buried the mysterious proceedings under wearisome layers of unnecessary weight.
    — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
  • That means audiences in the mood for a good old-fashioned Christmas show don't have to endure any of the of wearisome updating, reinventing and reimagining that classic theater works have often endured over the last couple of decades.
    — Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The result is yet another wearisome tale that inelegantly depicts themes like acceptance, understanding and diversity within a saga that has always been rather clumsy with its messaging around such weighty topics.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 10 Jan. 2022
  • This formulaic repetition of revolutionary rhetoric — a bit wearisome even to this sympathetic reader — has, admittedly, an organic function.
    — Ariel Dorfman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Trying to imbue those moments with greater import, however, soon proves a wearisome endeavor, especially considering that, aside from a few melancholic soundtrack arrangements, there’s little way to decipher their overarching intention.
    — Nick Schager, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
  • But the escalating conversations, often accompanied by astonishment, concerning women's looks, youth and ageing reflect a wearisome pattern deeply ingrained in both the entertainment industry and society as a whole — a pattern of entrenched ageism.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 14 May 2024
  • The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025

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