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    Use "bore" in a sentence

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    1. Finally at five pm, during the Aoki set, he felt the phone vibrate, and headed for the nearest security guard that bore the Oodle logo, a rune in black and white


    2. "Sorry I'm such a bore," she said


    3. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of


    4. His face bore a huge wide grin


    5. who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we,


    6. mind that bore the as yet unnamed form of Conscience added just a hint of chiding


    7. breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the


    8. Something he said once suggests that Jackie isn’t interested in school life, and he doesn’t bore her by talking about it; at least that is what he said


    9. He wondered if all the Qbytes they copied from a brain didn't really amount to little more than a few thousand pages of 'if' statements, some response databases and a few gig of life experiences? He wondered if being in silicon took something from a soul? He bore the remainder of the evening stoically


    10. She was quick to spot a lie and would bore in on it

    11. For he bore the sin of many,


    12. That part of his ethereal mind that bore the as yet unnamed form of Conscience added just a hint of chiding harmonic resonance to the song of the universe, and thus was born the conduit between God and the third rock out from an insignificant little star


    13. The sharp retort of metalled boot heels struck out at the early morning stillness, announcing the arrival of Danton and his scowling, out of breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the corridor like cannon balls, casting their grotesquely elongated shadows across the floor and up the walls


    14. ” The ones that Jesus turns away are the ones that bore bad fruit


    15. The religions of those nations that only bore bad fruit will be abolished and all nations will go to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Isaiah 2:2, Zechariah 14:16)


    16. Christ’s cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails are to a ship


    17. tear and twist into the splintered carcass that bore him home,


    18. She had always been drawn to his eyes; they were grayish in color, and could bore thru a person


    19. She bore that air of great confidence and purpose


    20. Besides the advanced fiber-optics that lit it, the stand that bore it was finely detailed Kimotran Bale-leaf, deep in lacquer with an ornate row of book rests fronting it, plenty of toe space and conveniently placed wand-racks

    21. My aunt bore it all as best she could but in the moment she dropped some soil onto the lid, she sank to her knees beside the shallow grave and buried her face in her hands, trembling and shaking, overwhelmed with grief


    22. He bore no grudge


    23. Hopefully they won’t bore you with too many jokes but keep in mind that if they do it could be a sign of their nervousness


    24. But all bore the same general features as Tarak


    25. His captain's uniform was well tailored, sumptuous, but comfortable, his boots bore a soft shine on leather little darker than his forearms


    26. Their helmets bore badges over their foreheads with a symbol on it like a distorted ‘T’ or maybe the head of one of the axes Alan’s Knume cherub uses


    27. She had the most elaborate bangle hanging from her left wrist, which also bore a thick bracelet with stylized bull’s horns that went up her right forearm


    28. gazed at Brent with hazel eyes that bore to his very being


    29. They hardly ever used any sail here, just poles and wheel-spars that bore on the well shaped curb stones of the canal


    30. Leand had been hurt when Tdeshi was lost and Jorma bore some responsibility for that because Tdeshi had been living with him when she decided to leave Sinbara

    31. “Then non-participating sex started to bore him, but he let some of his friend have at me


    32. The shows changed every six months just so as not to bore the clientele, not that they would have noticed, they were only there for the girls or the booze


    33. He noticed that one of the people on the closest rail bore a resemblance to Himla, one could have been Leand and another looked disturbingly like himself


    34. Long conversations bore Shaun


    35. She got no info on where that Fenais might be now, but she had a thumb print to use so that bore following up


    36. There is something about the stranger’s face, about the way those eyes bore into him, that unnerves Billy


    37. Then holding the end of a large pipe up to the mark, scribed round its diameter, bore a hole inside the scribed line and proceeded to cut out along the line, leaving a hole large enough for the pipe


    38. When he and Harry returned this time to the 'bath room' they bore a large porcelain object resembling an overgrown fruit bowl


    39. The clouds of dust south of the city looked like the gathering threat of an invading army, but it was just the new stockyards refilling, which bore testament to the spirit of a city that wanted it all


    40. He is up on his knees in a second, leaning over her, staring into those bore hole pupils, pupils that have been shocked wider still by his sudden movement and alarm

    41. Ytith are tiny pests that bore into soft plant stems


    42. thread which would lead them to the woman who bore her


    43. “It must bore the pilots to tears flying one of these airplanes?” Ju Lei directed her question to Li Quang


    44. woman was who bore his illegitimate child?’ said Jean,


    45. Woodpeckers bore into the pine trees, and puffins live here


    46. And then there’s the art! I could bore you ad


    47. In America the fraudulent tapes were re-examined and bore marks that confirmed their irregularity


    48. Two empty packs of cigarettes and three empty wine bottles bore testament to his cast iron constitution


    49. A poet must never bore his audience


    50. She bore a close resemblance to a fox, in truth














































    1. Herndon had looked almost bored till then but snapped to attention with that revelation


    2. "I thought I bored you with my stories of Zharvai


    3. Before that and the Wild Catch, I was afraid I could get bored here


    4. They hid and watched him but got bored quickly


    5. We are mentally dull and bored


    6. The men seemed bored as the therapist chatters away in an animated way


    7. "Alan, are you hiding in there?" she bored into the woman's eyes


    8. The Al-Harron's main section appeared to be a thousand-foot chunk of heavy rock with a hundred foot hole bored thru it that twinkled with containment fields


    9. "So you are bored with houris because they have no soul, because there is no 'mutual pleasure' but just a heavenly spirit performing its natural function


    10. Nevertheless, I often suspect -from askance looks, certain phrases, bored movements- that Aphrodite doesn't really like such discussions

    11. I wonder again, because Aphrodite doesn't seem to be bored or sulky now, she looks cheerful and lively


    12. After a while, he looks bored and nervous: “We shouldn't have come here! You should have invited me home, so as to spend a nice night together!” he snorts


    13. the bored and the beautiful from the caravans of Bude,


    14. Brancettrabble would be interested in his findings but was too bored with the exacting detail of the work to follow his daily observations


    15. for several years may be worried that their partner is growing bored with these typical gifts


    16. among the most bored people in temples


    17. even during pauses in the conversation you can look at them and not get bored


    18. Instead of taking the broad steps up to the main floor, they approached a smaller door to the side where a single military man leaned against the wall looking bored


    19. He was content to watch most of the time, most of the crew were housekeepers and he would have to be pretty bored to volunteer for that duty


    20. “You went all the way across henarDee while I slept?” She had driven at least a third of the journey, he’d been bored with it before they got that far

    21. ‘Well, there’s nothing else for me to do, is there?’ she asked, sounding bored just as he would expect her to be


    22. without allegiance, I mean,’ her eyes bored into his


    23. Tania, at first and soon after her Poly, grew increasingly bored with the lack of excitement the 'boat training' offered as compared with the at least changing chores at the house


    24. Finally bored with exploring the castle, Tom found his way back


    25. Shaun sounds flat and bored, but his eyes give away a distinct hint of unease


    26. “Still haven’t gotten bored with the view?” Johnson asked, looking out the


    27. Matt was rubbing his forehead and trying to focus, as Andrew sat around looking bored


    28. As nice as it was to have a man about the house, particularly a man who always did as he was told, she was starting to get bored of it quite quickly


    29. And so, they journeyed onwards through the forest, though Matt was getting quite bored


    30. If it was that far to get here I wouldn’t bother going out, I’d just sit around the still with them and get bored

    31. Alan reported his encounter with this native while Delos got bored, then annoyed


    32. “My intent is not to get bored but to get out of boredom


    33. So often, I end up at a place before they open, only to be bored


    34. The minute John became bored he could feel him—Max stirring in the


    35. By late Saturday night she was so bored she found herself sitting in front of the television trying to brush her hair with her good hand, but when the brush snagged and tumbled to the floor she didn’t even try to retrieve it; instead she found herself weeping hopelessly


    36. I'm getting bored waiting


    37. We had a bunch of crazy and wild students and when they got bored just sitting at the desk they would be playing with the combination lock and if you play enough with a combination lock enough magically the combination lock would unlock


    38. It wasn't supposed to be that way, she wasn't supposed to be able to learn it all, but a hundred year voyage leaves bored and intelligent souls a long time to study


    39. had to sit and listen to Johnny the Killer and act like I wasn’t bored


    40. "Galimoto is bored," the imp said, flicking an acorn into the air

    41. She apparently got bored with his open-mouthed stare and said, "I've come about this picture," and held up one of the pictures of Alan


    42. ever become bored searching the heart of such a magnificent


    43. Solo Ki didn't respond and seemed bored with the female elf


    44. "Death doesn't scare them at all," she bored into his eyes when she told him


    45. He bored right back


    46. So the poor poster sat there bored to tears taking in all that was said


    47. " She could have gone on about how the veron bus was structured but it would have bored him


    48. “Its the algebra all those A plus B divided by the sum of the square root of C makes him, well a bit bored


    49. little bored with the never-changing landscape of the


    50. I came to the bonfire expecting to be bored, feigning interest in a teenage girl, who possessed gifts she didn’t understand














































    1. being on another planet during the times they talk such stuff that bores you, try and take an


    2. “Argh, enough with this triviality, it bores me


    3. butterflies or restoring Model A Fords are crashing bores, but if they are what fascinates a client, listen to their stories in a friendly way


    4. Opera bores me


    5. This, as a question , bores down to the


    6. Investing some money into bores he found that there was sufficient water to set up an agricultural project growing exotic plants which were processed and used in many legitimate drugs


    7. What I’m doing now bores me senseless, running the factory that is, not the sale


    8. It bores us


    9. This bores me, so I think I’ll let Brick take care of you


    10. ‘Either he makes you mad by narrating how he’s being ignored in spite of his merit, or bores you to death by enlightening how the reservations are ruining the nation

    11. out, if God created visual beauty, he also created the worm that bores through


    12. the breakfast table like a helpless animal while the bores talked about subjects that were not in


    13. I am sorry the Foreign Office bores you so much


    14. country there would be bores and ground tanks


    15. the property was from bores -the water was pumped up


    16. more points, and if something bores them, they give it less


    17. Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after fifteen meters, the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls


    18. By this point the Nautilus was resting on a bed of ice only one meter thick and drilled by bores in a thousand places


    19. I mean about calling certain guys bores


    20. He was very intelligent and all, but he was one of the biggest bores I ever met

    21. Larger field guns, with bores of up to six inches and firing shells of up to two hundred pounds at even greater elevations, were under development as well, with ranges which might go as high as eight thousand or even ten thousand yards


    22. Dohlaran gunfounders had improved the quality of their products enormously, but guns with ten-inch bores crowded the very limit of what they could accomplish, and cast iron was still far more brittle than bronze or steel


    23. Farebrother, were great bores, and Lydgate did not care about commercial politics or cards: what was he to do for relaxation? He was often invited to the Bulstrodes'; but the girls there were hardly out of the schoolroom; and Mrs


    24. But my cousins are bores


    25. But Rosamond reflected that if any of those high-bred cousins who were bores, should be induced to visit Middlemarch, they would see many things in her own family which might shock them


    26. Dear Goddess, thought I, spare me this rambling Tale, which bores me so it makes my Ears itch! Were Lancelot and Horatio both daft? Had they no Judgement at all? I began to nod and close my Eyes, pretending to listen, but only listening here and there to Anne’s Tale when it suited my Convenience


    27. The repetition bores me and I’m not into ancient history


    28. "Some bores they won't touch," said Al


    29. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, and some knaves


    30. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different

    31. But once, hearing it, I laughed and replied: Not dead, but simply sleeping until you chattering bores shut up!”


    32. The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay situated between the chalk and the


    33. After more that four years as a trader you get to a point where it bores the pants off you hour after hour and you start to look for something that can take away this tedious existence in front of 5 screens all day


    34. “I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States


    35. / The train bores through rock and scrub oak/ For hours until suddenly, off to the right,/ Glints the fierce splintered eye of the ocean


    36. Hudson states, frequents trees, and bores holes in the trunk for its nest


    37. His expression of face seemed to be constantly saying, “Phew! how it bores me to have no one to speak to!” The first thing in the morning he would go out shooting, or sit reading a book in his room, and not dress until luncheon time


    38. ’ It’s really on the level with the game of the fellow that waits for a dark night, slips into the barnyard, poisons the watch dog, bores an auger hole in the granary, and takes to his heels at the first suspicious sound


    1. It was fun to visit but boring to live in


    2. “Real boring, I know,” Jesse adds, waving his hand in the air


    3. From what you've told me, Ava was more boring than that


    4. She didn't say anything, but her eyes smiled that she would not be boring for Dawnsleep


    5. This trail was so long and boring that her mind was really wandering


    6. He thought he understood what Tahlmute was trying to do, convince Estwig this had something to do with boring academia, and tried to help with that impression


    7. He'd found her picture in the eye, she was not the type to excite Estwig so there was no use boring him with it


    8. "It was pretty boring here," Ava said, "There wouldn't have been much for you to do and I am so short of fabrication capacity it took awhile to build up enough room for another soul


    9. quiet and, frankly, pretty boring, providing a thin string of tavernas and bars set back


    10. ’ She said in exasperation, ‘It is just too ridiculous … I mean, this is me … boring old Elizabeth Wynell!’

    11. So many people – men and women – become boring as they become older, you know


    12. Stephen became quite boring when he was going out with her


    13. ‘Don’t you find it rather boring round here?’


    14. Lessons at Janus started again last month, but they are still meaningless and boring


    15. I occasionally meet Mandy (aunt Hermione's extremely boring niece: the only thing she does is answer ''yes'' or ''no'' to my questions), Lena (an incredibly dull, married hen: I visit her once a week, and as soon as I get there she starts helping her sons with their homework; she won't stop until I leave) or Persephone (rather depressed, yet she is the only one with whom I have something to discuss)


    16. He says it was very boring but I have a feeling he just doesn’t want to talk about it – there is a distant look in his eyes when he mentions it


    17. As for the rest, the week in Amarynthos has proved to be really boring, since we've spent most of our time playing cards or chatting with the old crocks


    18. Soon Helen proves to be boring and insecure, as she barely has anything to say; in fact, every word has to be screwed out of her


    19. Factory: If you see that you work in a factory, you will lead a boring life


    20. Converted from a small house at some stage in its history, the ground floor front rooms had been knocked into one characterless space painted a boring shade of blue

    21. This in turn leads to a lecture from Wiesse on how important this waterway is as an artery to the West Country, stressing how vital it is for local commerce and going into incredible and extremely boring detail about how it is maintained and how much it costs


    22. not that one, it’s boring, look at it,


    23. Normal doesn't have to be boring and nice does not have to equate with un-fun! That's the


    24. use and that by now are becoming very boring


    25. The boring banter continued and the evening staggered on with Mercouri bragging about how much beer and raki he could drink


    26. ” She let out a sigh, “that brings us up to here and now; kind of boring, huh?”


    27. Just the shop is so boring, Ish,' Omi said


    28. He thought she might even like it, the tug of one gee could get boring at times


    29. 'Why are studies so boring? Why do you have to do something so uninteresting


    30. ” They laughed, the hundred years between stars was terminally boring

    31. a real splash in the world, and his parents were so boring and


    32. the other girls are sweet but so utterly boring


    33. I told her that it was enjoying being with someone even if the job you were doing was unpleasant or boring


    34. “After you are settled in, and the routine gets boring, come and spend some time at the Inn


    35. It was lethally boring


    36. ‘That boring is it?’ Dave countered


    37. Was the flight boring?”


    38. He makes every topic sound so boring, which is of itself a talent, but not one appreciated by tonight's punters


    39. Jorma was excited to be the pilot of a needleboat at last, after a long and boring business ceremony that Ava participated in a lot more than he did


    40. boring holes through his soul

    41. The panel of judges sitting out in the audience wave the boring little shit away and insist that the show goes on


    42. “I’m sorry, not about your business, your business is boring to be honest


    43. “Like I said, boring


    44. “You’re right, that will be boring


    45. Mum and Dad had met just after the war – Dad had been in the Navy and, from what I could see, spent a fairly boring time up at Scapa Flow trying to keep warm, at least, that is what he told me when I used to sit on his lap as a kid


    46. “No way, that’s boring too


    47. “So everything in the world is boring then, is it, Matt?” Andrew asked


    48. Before that, their lives hadn’t been exactly horrible, just… lousy, and boring to boot


    49. Ralph Stanley, a man more interested in the architecture of his career than in any boring buildings


    50. “It’s going to be boring around here without you to lend a bit of urban flair to our simple lives














































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    Synonyms for "bore"

    bore bore-hole drill hole caliber calibre gauge aegir eager eagre tidal bore dullard drill tire diameter hole pest annoy fatigue ennui penetrate pierce perforate tunnel

    "bore" definitions

    a person who evokes boredom


    a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)


    diameter of a tube or gun barrel


    a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes


    cause to be bored


    make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool