TIRESOME in a Sentence

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And she was not a girl who had gone the stale round of balls till every face in the ballroom was familiar and tiresome.

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 Meanings and Examples of TIRESOME
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tiresome
 a.  so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  I think the dancing-school a tiresome affair, and wonder why the girls can't dance by themselves and leave us alone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
2  'She is a tiresome creature,' said Dora, pouting.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
3  And she was not a girl who had gone the stale round of balls till every face in the ballroom was familiar and tiresome.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
4  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.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
5  He sat down with a smile, facing her, felt her pulse, and again began asking her tiresome questions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
6  Her husband was simply a superfluous and tiresome person.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
7  In the middle of the winter Vronsky spent a very tiresome week.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
8  She did not sleep well, and is dreadfully tiresome today, said Dolly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 14
9  She had felt her a tiresome charge and had indeed seen as little of her as she dared.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
12  The stranger's landlord said that he didn't know who had taken the house opposite, one saw no person about, and as to the music, it appeared to him to be extremely tiresome.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHADOW
13  No, no, I wish to do away with that mysterious reputation that you have given me, my dear viscount; it is tiresome to be always acting Manfred.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks.
14  After these tiresome labors, she must do her lessons, which was a daily trial of every virtue she possessed.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
15  But don't let us think of business; it is so tiresome.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
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