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    Use "tedium" in a sentence

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    tedium


    1. any entertainment which would relive the tedium


    2. White Feathers's supply of ice blocks was nearly exhausted before the last week of August, which prompted discussion of an alternative plan to the tedium of retrieving the blocks from beneath their scattered holding buoys in the lake


    3. some relief to the tedium, and even boasted a lively


    4. Boom! went a saluting gun, and away went transport after transport; the bands playing, the troops, relieved from the tedium of the wait, cheering as only such enthusiasts can cheer


    5. Now, exhaustion, more mental than physical combined with the tedium of watching boats creep by, had long since caught up with her


    6. Another bit of traveling tedium which drove him mad


    7. Maybe the reward would have been far greater but he needed an escape route from the tedium of his existence


    8. Suzy could see no end to the tedium but she didn’t want to offend her man


    9. This is a pretty long, boring tweet and the message contained in it has been lost in the tedium of the tweet


    10. And if at her hours of tedium she misses my coward love, she just has to call me and next to her I will be, because this incurable love, although out of my scope, prefers suicide in her than in another port to berth”

    11. Many times he had been innocent victim of derision and laughter due to this circumstance, as that of Beatrice, one afternoon in which the tedium and boredom put house in our backyard in The Borrascosa, our troubled mansion in Saint Andre


    12. Everything about men and maleness, sex and sensuality has been sanitised to passionless tedium


    13. discoveries to be once more embroiled in the tedium of daily existence


    14. "He had found relief from the tedium of his hard life through the false comfort of drugs; at first it was the joint and graduating to the hype filled with the syrup of white powder


    15. The journey and the tedium


    16. Without going through the tedium of


    17. Her laugh had taken on the tones of an organ, her breasts had succumbed to the tedium of endless caressing, her stomach and her thighs had been the victims of her irrevocable fate as a shared woman, but her heart grew old without bitter-ness


    18. They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun


    19. For several months he was seen wandering about with a toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendía’s days, and no one knew whether because of the involuntary exercise, the winter tedium or the imposed abstinence, but his belly was deflating little by little like a wineskin and his face of a beatific tortoise was becoming less bloodshot and his double chin less prominent until he became less pachydermic all over and was able to tie his own shoes again


    20. If she had known that Aureliano Segundo was going to take things the way he did, with the fine pleasure of a grandfather, she would not have taken so many turns or got so mixed up, but would have freed herself from mortification the year before Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain

    21. Then he thought that Gaston was not as foolish as he appeared, but, quite the contrary, was a man of infinite steadiness, ability, and patience who had set about to conquer his wife with the weariness of eternal agreement, of never saying no, of simulating a limitless conformity, letting her become enmeshed in her own web until the day she could no longer bear the tedium of the illusions close at hand and would pack the bags herself to go back to Europe


    22. Every one of us felt tired, tedium and somnolent


    23. The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accomplishments


    24. The tedium of using the 15 August speech to pay ritualistic obeisance to past achievements was forsaken


    25. Next I rang Dale to relieve the tedium, but could only leave a message as he was at a meeting


    26. In a sense, we have achieved the architectural infrastructure, if not the inhabitance, of a significant aspect of Marx's utopian ideals of communism, where the tools of production liberate the laborer from the tedium of repetitious and unfulfilling employment: a little work (ecommerce, web-based business), a little fishing (Wii-ercise, Guitar Hero), a little painting (YouTube, PhotoShop, Garage Band), a little thinking (Googling, Wikipeding) a little reflecting (blogging, twittering), and a little socializing (URhoming)


    27. to the tedium that was setting in


    28. Thus there will be no weariness or tedium


    29. The people of the town were perpetually starved for diversions of any sort to relieve the tedium of their lives and as a result Judy often experimented with many ethnic recipes that they might try


    30. moments spent with him were her escape from the tedium of

    31. As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to


    32. In the first week of my hike, I was often too exhausted to read more than a page or two before I fell asleep, but as I grew stronger I was reading more, eager to escape the tedium of my days


    33. Your dedication to tedium is astounding and admirable


    34. There was no need to take a point penalty, but it was depressing to lose that excellent bridge between her go-nowhere job and the terminal tedium of house-wifery


    35. Maybe she was bored and wanted to stir up a little chaos so as not to die of tedium


    36. She said that the roles she was playing “are all the same, all dumb-blonde types with sex appeal,” and “it’s too much tedium


    37. But, in the end, even that distraction with no expectation only increased the tedium


    38. But that night, as he looked through the albums as he had done on so many other evenings of Sunday tedium, Sara Noriega made one of those casual observations that freeze the blood


    39. In addition to his work, which grew more and more intense, and the tedium of his furtive hunting, and the dead calm of the years, there was also the final crisis of Tránsito Ariza, whose mind had been left almost without memories, almost a blank, to the point where she would turn to him at times, see him reading in the armchair he always sat in, and ask him in surprise: “And whose son are you?” He would always reply with the truth, but she would interrupt him again without delay:


    40. Juvenal Urbino delivered the historic letter, which was then mislaid among other papers and never seen again, and the entire delegation almost suffocated i n the tedium of the speeches

    41. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, was nodding his head in sleep because of the overwhelming tedium of the drama


    42. What, then, will be the outcome of a few eccentric individuals, or madmen, tilling the soil, making shoes, and so on, instead of smoking cigarettes, playing whist, and roaming about everywhere to relieve their tedium, during the space of the ten leisure hours a day which every intellectual worker enjoys? This will be the outcome: that these madmen will show in action, that that imaginary property for which men suffer, and for which they torment themselves and others, is not necessary for happiness; that it is oppressive, and that it is mere superstition; that property, true property, consists only in one’s own head and hands; and that, in order to actually exploit this real property with profit and pleasure, it is necessary to reject the false conception of property outside one’s own body, upon which we expend the best efforts of our lives


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    Synonyms for "tedium"

    tediousness tedium tiresomeness boredom ennui monotony doldrums yawn

    "tedium" definitions

    the feeling of being bored by something tedious


    dullness owing to length or slowness