“When the elementary school wanted new playground equipment, it took three years to get it. But bring up something boring, and it’s ready to go in twenty-four hours.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Although Officer Delinko liked the town of Coconut Cove, he had become bored with his job, which mostly involved traffic enforcement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she put on her slightly stupid demure look, but after a few of his words she gave that up and bored into him with her eyes, trying to read his thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were both right: Trip got bored easily, and seldom thought about girls once they were out of his sight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But none of them pulled plows or wagons, none bore riders, none except dogs pulled sleds or became war machines, and none of them have been as important for food as have big domestic mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I can still live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don’t read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And at last Bergil came running in, and he bore six leaves in a cloth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only, they were talking about boring things, like school and the weather. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Marcus also knew that his cousin would be there when it happened, with the eyes of Rome upon her to see how she bore herself. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her face was puffed and bore horrible marks, one lip was bleeding where her tooth had bitten down. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You risked life and death for books that you’ve already read? You must be really bored.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a printing veteran whose hands bore the scars of the clunky outdated presses, several fingers misshapen from old fractures and curled inward like claws. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve grown up a bit, I suppose. And maybe everyone else has too. Can’t keep on with the same stuff all the time. Gets boring.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A phase of embryonal development. It’s a little boring, I'm afraid, unless you are fascinated by fish. I work at the Hatchery.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too gassed about working at a bank, just because it seemed like it would be boring as hell, sitting behind that thick glass counting other people’s money all day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My goal to come off bored and older slipped right out from under me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, my summer was going to be boring. This is the best offer I’ve gotten yet. So what do I look for?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Painted a midnight blue that looked nearly black, the car bore a strong resemblance to the Batmobile. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dionysus looked bored, twirling a grape vine between his fingers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we were just about to film a bit for the show, so, you know, nice to meet you. No need to stick around. It’s dead boring, filming,” Duff said, trying to edge away. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The shorthorn bulls of Hereford bore little resemblance to the longhorns of Craven. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the screen in his hand, Henry’s message reads, In world’s most boring meeting with Philip. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even Mum got bored after a few months. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There isn't anything else to see now, it's boring.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t mind him if he wasn’t so conceited and didn’t bore me, and bore me, and bore me.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Elinor tapped her finger on the left-hand page of her catalog so hard that it wouldn't have surprised Meggie if she had bored a hole in it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the molasses bore down on Number 3 freight house, he heard one of the most terrifying sounds he had ever encountered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She was bored and indifferent and wanted very much to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I imagine he was drunk like most of Chicago,” Officer Rariden continued in a low, bored drawl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These remarks were lost to the class because the girls, bored with the scuffle discussion, were waving their clippings from the Cucaracha Voice. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

They all bore with pride the name Aureliano and the last name of their mothers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Heaps of things have happened, but I often think I’m boring you with my dreary chitchat and that you’d just as soon have fewer letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After a while, I got bored and crawled through the last Troll Hole into the souvenir shop. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now that they were older and bored, Vonetta and Fern were glad to take the short hike. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Life on the island had become a peaceful and almost boring routine that he understood well. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I got tired of digging through trash for bottles, and she got bored modeling. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it fun? I wish I could have been one. I would have been so good at it. My job is so boring.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She hung drawings of squirrels all over the nursery, expecting that the constant exposure would soon cause the children to grow bored with the idea of squirrels altogether. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nine men of every ten bore slave marks on their cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bugs had bored holes right through some of the faces, and the photos smelled a little like mold. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She felt split apart, broken, as frozen as the island that bore the weight of Elowen’s ambition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He slammed me back into the floor, all ninety kilos of him boring down on me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He said his name was Darrin, but as soon as I started asking him questions he got bored with me and started to go back to the computer screen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Camels are boring. You know, I heard there’s a cowboy show somewhere around here. Now, that’d be worth going to.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever, Dad,” my mom says, sounding like a bored teenager. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Because if you hadn’t, Connor wouldn’t be here. And imagine how boring this world would be without him.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sweeping off a huge field of solar cells is boring and physically demanding. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to go look around,” I tell Kim, bored. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw that he was wearing his one Sunday suit and that underneath his shirt he bore the rash of the banana company. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Even if you teach kids like me, who think life is boring?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos, after the blow his father bore, sat still without a tear, though his heart felt the blow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn't the same Prince Brat who'd run away the night before, bored with his own meanness and haughtiness and cruelty. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“To be quite honest with you, Miss Trixie was beginning to bore me the last few days.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my reading of Marxist works, I found a great deal of information that bore on the type of problems that face a practical politician. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Martin put it to me, Maya civilization indeed bore striking similarities to that of ancient Greece. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was what it felt like—as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Note that a window means your traveling companion may then be stuck next to a spectacularly loquacious bore. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grumbled to herself all morning over her work while Tom and Samuel went over the boring equipment, sharpened bits, drew sketches of windmills new in design, and measured for timbers and redwood water tanks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked why she was in bed in the middle of the day she told him she was bored. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Moving isn’t tennis” “Would be pretty boring if it weren’t.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was a mess of multicolored bruises and bore so many cuts it looked like I'd been tattooed in cuneiform. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s just boring not being able to gossip with anyone. The boys were cute, but the girls there had no sense of style. Most of them were wearing the ugly brigaduita uniforms. Ugh.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Gram told me once when I asked why we couldn’t walk down there, and the answer was boring enough that I quickly lost interest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked rather bored as he put a tin soldier on a tiny horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to let this be easy and boring for you. No, I have some wonderful surprises in store. Anguish. Indecision. Oh, you just wait.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Indeed, everyone she knew bore the same weight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For he saw that instead of a spear he bore a tall staff, as it were a standard, but it was close-furled in a black cloth bound about with many thongs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The long marches were grueling, miserable, boring—and, without warning, deadly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Medusa’s head was given to Athena, who bore it always upon the aegis, Zeus’s shield, which she carried for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stay up past midnight reading in the family room in the hope that Cassie will get bored and go away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Baba’s stony eyes bore into mine and, just like that, I wasn’t laughing anymore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was okay. There’s going to be a talent show, which is like all anybody can talk about it and it’s boring.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I think she was bored of being the prettiest, smartest, and most popular girl in the world. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, once I learned how to remember things, I wasn’t bored at all. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tanu would have gone on until she had an armful of bangles, but I soon grew bored with the work. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry you’re bored, but please find a hobby that does not involve living things, or learn more about why you’d actually want chickens before you acquire your own. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Small children, bored, played along the edge of the pine grove. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Don’t you get bored sitting around the house all day? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Eyes bore down on me from all sides. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I’m useless in the temple’s library, memorizing passage upon passage of boring scripture, but out here on these lawns, I come alive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever Grandmother started lecturing him about his ancestors—how they’d come over from China and prospered in the import/export business, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest Chinese families in Vancouver—well, it was boring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had stooped stiffly, because of the burden she bore, and she moved more slowly than he, so that they cut unevenly, his row ahead, and hers behind. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was very intelligent and all, but he was one of the biggest bores I ever met. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As she dropped her hands, it occurred to Lazlo that they bore no gray discoloration. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Plus, it’s not as boring as being at school all day. My dad says I’m a blue-collar guy, like he is.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Also all the slang, the “square-bashing” drilling exercises, and the boring meals and the uniforms, though Maddie’s group didn’t get issued proper uniforms at first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A few inches of snow lay on the ground; every apple on their trees bore an icy white cap. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And more fun than just reading a boring old paper aloud. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of boring,” Marisol said, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Matt thought the audience looked bored, although they tried to conceal it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel Ike’s and Felix’s eyes boring into his back. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Zoe got bored and started shooting arrows at random billboards as we flew by. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

All of us bore its taint—not because our distant ancestor had been tempted in that distant garden, but because each of us, lodged in Adam’s body, had actually tasted the fruit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The racial problems that consumed Guitar were the most boring of all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bored Yossarian, but he was in love with her, too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I mean, he may not want to. He may get bored. He’s talked about leaving before. There’s no reason he’s got to be here, and he’s surely never going to have a job.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I walked into a doctor’s waiting room, boring and bland, and spoke to a middle-aged receptionist, who took my details without really looking at me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go on, anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness, if such a thing could be brought out in the throb of the suction snake. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Izzie gets bored standing around and goes outside again. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I get that. It gets boring after a while, the same old thing. It’s just, like, every day is the same and it never changes.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You sit at the back of the class and look dead bored. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He circled the basket like it was prey, wary eyes fixed on the two remaining slips of paper as he tried to determine which bore his family’s name. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But soon she got bored and dredged herself up to see what all was going on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look to Keenan, but he appears almost bored, and I'm shaken at how his eyes can go cold as quickly as a candle being blown out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I got bored, so wandered off and got a bunch of embarrassing things and put them in strangers’ carts when they weren’t looking.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In English, we’re reading some boring old book, by some boring old dude, set in some boring old time period. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“This is boring. And painful. What are we looking for?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"I thought that, too. Amber was always the boring one. My mother's pet. It all sounded outlandish. But it was like she changed. Became a different person. More like you, and less like her." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I was feeling bored. It’s a warm afternoon, so I came out.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

King Hizdahr’s pit fighters were already growing bored and restive with their new duties, and bored men were lax, slow to react. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wrinkle had appeared between her brows again, and she stared hard at the symbol in the center of the cover, as if she could bore through it with the sheer intensity of her gaze. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The mouth of the trumpet was against the wall, and Lombard, pushing it aside indicated where two or three small holes had been unobtrusively bored through the wall. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If he could just get safely home, he’d never complain about being bored again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry I thought your farm was boring before. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then returning quickly to his long habit of secrecy, he closed his hand about the precious Phial which he still bore. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was boring because I didn’t see what difference it made. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And I thought maybe you’d want to be bored with me. Plus, it’s Friday. They never teach you anything on Friday.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sansa was allowed ter go riding too, but only in the bailey, and it got boring going round in a circle all day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone there is going to be boring anyway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

You can only throw so many me-balls at humans before you get bored. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In a final burst of speed, the horse of the Horned King plunged ahead; the animal’s flanks bore against Melyngar, who reared furiously and struck out with her hoofs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Since I wasn’t allowed out alone now, days often became boring and I was glad that we’d be starting lessons and I thought my mother must be glad too. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t she just be boring like my other teachers? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fire bore down on the crowd at the quay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“All nonsense!” replied Capricorn, answering the unspoken question in a bored voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Upwards it wound, coiling like a snake, boring its way across the sheer slope of rock. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Green. What are you doing? Let’s hang out. I’m bored. Samantha has to work until six.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

No one, so far as Bloom could ascertain, bore a grudge against Shorty. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had all five of them done he fitted them to the bores and snapped the cylinder shut and turned the gun and looked at it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Just for fun. School reading is too boring. Don’t you think?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His talk was far from vacuous and stood out sharply from the rest, several of which bore no connection to the purpose of the meeting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

If they were bored or had had too much to drink, they might single out a traditionally dressed Jew for a beating. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just go to the library now,” Jack called out, sounding really bored. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Boy, is my date boring. I don’t even know where he is. Why is a tough little rocket boy going stag to the formal? Do you wanta dance?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did her best to look indifferent and bored. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid you’ll get bored just sitting around with me all day. I want you to make friends your own age. I’m sure there are some nice girls your age somewhere around.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Harry,” said Parvati who, like him, looked faintly embarrassed and bored by the behavior of their two friends. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to see no art movie. You always want to take me to see those boring old art movies. Half the time I don't even know what they're about." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes bored into his, daring him to keep looking. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel Red’s electric blue eyes boring into me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its head was turned to the left; one fierce eye bored into that of a deer. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look past her, into the distance as I’ve been trained to, and her cold glare bores into me with the delicacy of a blunt knife. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“General Pickett is gravely concerned, sir. He wishes to inquire if there are any Yankees left. He says to tell you that he personally is bored and his men are very lonely.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ignored it and bored back into the fight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Audrey complained about how boring it was hanging out with us, so I brought out board games and we stopped talking about Jenna’s troubles. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now fulmars and petrels swooped down and bore them away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The white stone that bore the elf’s name had already acquired a weathered look. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had been placed in the center of the hall on the stool that normally bore the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His voice bore a hint of sarcasm; also a suggestion that, if it was all the same to me, he would prefer not to continue this particular conversation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other for a minute, Rishi’s deep honey eyes boring into hers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was obviously as bored as I was—her head kept bobbing around. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I wait around until most of the crowd gets bored and goes away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said something to the friend sitting on the other side of her and they both turned to give us the once-over with bored, heavy-lidded eyes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Billy Steen, who bore no resemblance whatever to a football player but had become one through sheer will, fighting off an offensive lineman four inches taller and fifty pounds heavier to sack the quarterback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm goddess looked rather bored, idly spinning her metal disc. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To Cabot, Alma Ember seemed just innocent enough to be loved but adventurous enough not to bore the hell out of everyone. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re bored with it? If only we all had satellite so everybody could be bored with it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I certainly wasn't going to sit down at a table with old Lillian Simmons and that Navy guy and be bored to death. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Farmers greased up their tractors; Nick Rael ordered garden seeds, summer hoses, irrigation boots; and cows groaned and fell down and bore their calves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked a little less bored when he saw it was a cop knocking. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You know, I hated moving to that house. I hated the kids at Queen Mary’s, and those boring things like skipping. I didn’t really have any good friends there, except for you.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, “you are not boring me at all, I am enjoying it.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His record crate bore a don’t panic sticker and an anti-Sixer logo—a yellow number six with a red circle-and-slash over it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But then, as a teenager, I got really into zodiac signs and concluded that it was so much cooler to be a Libra than a boring Virgo. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Even still, cutting class is a serious offense, Mustafa, boring or not. You shouldn’t have been with those kids in the first place.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster the waters bore him along, tossing him right and left. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As my mother and I approached the summer heat bore down on us, and a cicada started up, like an aerial lawnmower, in the heart of a copper beech tree at the back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He talked in a flat voice, trying to sound like the most boring person on the whole planet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

A whole lot about the women that used to be but nothing that makes any sense, cuz drunk Noise is like a drunk man: blurry and boring and dangerous. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I thought we were moving to a real farm, but it’s more like a big, boring garden. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She can’t tell if Terry’s outfit is a uniform or if it’s just so boring that it looks like one: black pants, clunky black shoes with rubber soles, a matronly peach-colored T-shirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m bored with him, he’s no fun to ride. Why can’t I ride one of the stallions?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A black, buzzing cloud streaked from the orchard, and bore on so rapidly and passed so close to Coll’s head that he had to leap out of the way. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“They wrote boring in giant letters. I don’t know how long you’ve been lying there, but if you burned...or tanned...or whatever...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I reached it before the sun was high, and the sandspit and its tides bore me into the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In case you were bored and wanted to play,” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Alex tried making deals with the universe, the way he usually did: “If I hold my breath to the count of thirty, he’ll get bored and stop.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn and bore black crepe ribbons, and the walls were piled with wreaths of flowers whose sickly sweet odor filled the halls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mighty eagle swept down and bore him away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I had finished my mother’s books—not the boring history ones, I was never much into those, but the novels, the epics—I started spending my allowance on books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While my teachers labored over the rigors of their chosen subject, I sat in the back, pretty much bored out of my mind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They looked back over their shoulders with a look of bored contempt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Constance and Methuselah carried lanterns; Matthias bore the Warrior’s shield upon his arm. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She came to class every day wearing the same distant, bored expression. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing left of all that was a street that bore his name in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

History notes covered in doodles by an extremely bored student…he scanned them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But my psychiatrist just looked bored, his hand still propped under his chin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keto might be a little boring, but she’ll take good care of your friend. And honestly, the best part of the tour is still to come!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’d also shared hilarious moments behind the scenes, trying on each other’s makeup, giggling about boys, and coming up with spur-of-the-moment games on long, boring afternoons. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As far as cursed objects went, this was by far the most boring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What if she thought he was shallow or boring? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What if she was the sweet, boring Olga I always knew her to be? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For Troy must perish, as ordained, that day she harbored the great horse of timber; hidden the flower of Akhaia lay, and bore sso slaughter and death upon the men of Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope it’s soon. I’m getting bored. What’s the use of having an army if you don’t get to use it?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Let me finish reading it to you. You’re bored stiff with Clematis.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He gave her a bored look and didn’t move. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Good idea, but what if she thinks it’s boring. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Looking bored, she went through the pockets of her coat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Writing becomes boring, so I draw over my words. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Unopened for years, it bore an iron clasp that was rusty and worn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could feel his eyes bore into the back of my head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ain’t no black folks in the part of Heaven that I been assigned to and I’m bored. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neely has decided to give us a break from cutting open small animals and watching boring videos to return to the scientific process. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Men now raised the king, and laying cloaks upon spear-truncheons they made shift to bear him away towards the City; and others lifted Éowyn gently up and bore her after him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It really can get boring unless you keep your eyes open. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Immediately when she walked down the aisle of the bus she felt eyes boring into her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Colin could hear the annoyance in Hassan's voice as he asked, in the monotone of the aggressively bored, what life had been like in Gutshot when the oldster was a kid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Skies all over the world bore witness to four decades of successful Langley research, from passenger jets to bombers, transport planes to fighter aircraft. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But what’s the point of boring you with harsh words, spiteful conversations and tears when you know they bore us even more? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care whether car A or car B gets to Chicago first. It’s a boring problem.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Francis in what I thought a bored tone, as he held out Camilla’s chair and then slid into his own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I thought he was going to be sick. You weren't bored, were you, Robert?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be mad at her, but it’s obvious she’s bored reciting these lines that have been burned into memory from telling hundreds, maybe thousands, about how they’ll soon be dead. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Or black for House Dondarrion," called the man who bore the enemy banner. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Friday was also boring, except that it was Friday, which meant it was almost Saturday, which meant I was that much closer to the lock, which was happiness. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I want my own bed,” Theodora said, and Eleanor thought, She is sulking again; when she is hungry or tired or bored she turns into a baby. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and scrubbed the soup pot hard enough to bore a hole through it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to have her judging us, and thinking we were too boring or stupid or something. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You gotta chat about something or be bored out of your skin, so we pretty much talked about everything. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was very boring, but I could earn my own money and be independent while I tried to find a way to work somehow with animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I went into camp pretty late and had plenty of time alone, bored out of my mind, to figure things out.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ishmael tried to take maneuvers seriously, but the veterans in his squad went through them hung over or bored or both simultaneously, and their attitude of indifference had its influence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he’s bored at home, there are plenty of books to read, and his parents see it as their responsibility to keep him actively engaged in the world around him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this is boring. What’s going on with you? Your life is so much better than mine right now.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be five hundred dollars you can pay it at the window down the hall to your left,” said the judge in a bored monotone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat politely through the ceremonies of Two and Three and Four, increasingly bored as he was each year. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This room? It’s so boring. No TV or anything. Can’t I go up to the lounge?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Reynie began to flip through his papers, some of which bore faint smears of peanut butter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was rutted and bore many signs of the recent heavy rain; there were pools and pot-holes full of water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As they passed the car in which he sat, Ben could hear Blakeley moaning to the recruits who bore him toward the garbage, “Help me. Please help me. I’m only wounded.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were books and music and a TV at my disposal, which meant I never once had the opportunity to be bored. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They looked aimless and bored, as if they were uncertain what they were protecting. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She surely would not be able to lie to him indefinitely about his father, for one day he would be old enough to realize that it was not his father’s name he bore. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The glare of the television lights immediately bore down on them, making the bags and circles around their eyes even more noticeable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could be having a boring or awful or just not very fun day, and then as soon as I started playing my trumpet, it felt like the skies were opening up. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I was going to be bored to death for eight months. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he went over some boring stuff about guns, like which slugs to use in your shotgun and to always keep both barrels loaded. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Cilla, who steals all the cookie dough from the cookie dough ice cream and leaves me with just the boring vanilla. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The vendor lady looked bored as she counted the guy’s change. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His intensity and loneliness are, and so are the gun magazines that she sometimes sees him thumbing through during boring lectures, and the way he doesn’t even seem to feel guilty for what he did. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In fact, life at home seemed kind of boring compared to life at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Bing was only four, easily excitable and easily bored and irritable. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crown of steel he bore, but between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes: the Lord of the Nazgûl. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As I trudged off, I felt his gaze boring into me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From what she saw, the bargains never bore fruit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m bored. There’s nothing to do here. Why can’t we go on a walk with you?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It sounds boring,” she shouted from up ahead as we biked to her house after school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mom leans down, her eyes boring into mine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

No one is more aware of my shortcomings and mistakes than myself so I won’t bore you further. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the men grew bored and returned to listen to the truck’s radio, Ruby stayed by the field, thinking about that damp earth, those fragile beansprouts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine him ever lonely, or bored or despondent; his equanimity was bottomless, as was his lack of ambition, and he assumed that everyone else was much like him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My little sisters? My father's sugarcane fields and orange groves? I love reading poems, but there's nothing for me to really write about. Our life is boring.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the boy could only crawl, they grew bored of the sport and put an arrow through his back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Almost none of Ngubase’s testimony bore even a remote resemblance to the truth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about a devastating erosion in standards, how the students of today bore no resemblance to the students of even ten or fifteen years ago, how their preoccupations were with anything but school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would keep the Boring Room from being boring! Why can’t you understand that?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I expected to be bored, but I watched the game intently as Conner, Teddy, and Doug maneuvered all over the court, making shot after shot. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” Chaol added, jerking his chin at Dorian, “I think you have far more attractive suitors vying for your attention. I’m boring company to keep.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

How could they ever earn enough money to give their daughters pretty clothes and send them to Europe during the summers so they wouldn't get bored? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Hygiene kit,” the bored supply sergeant answered with a hand gesture that told me to move on. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that it was boring, it was really fun, but I didn’t deserve it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He told Jason that he bore no grudge against brave men and that if they proved themselves such he would give the Fleece to them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why couldn’t we stay in LA? It’s boring driving these freeways.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The gloom, the humidity, the permanent sour breath of rainy season all bore down on me like a bothersome lover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Charles V’s court he persuaded the bored monarch to let him loose in North America with an expedition of his own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We both appreciate simplicity, and if we are sometimes bored—well, boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Feathers blinks slowly, like this whole thing bores her. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the other days he had carried them around with him during boring wanderings through the business district and the Quarter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It was boring,” she said, because Twig doesn’t care for long-term projects. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No longer did I feel the ridiculing eyes boring into me as I walked the halls of C Average. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The people simply became bored with this dull child, and forgot him and turned away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Janie’s train left too early in the day for the town to witness much, but the few who saw her leave bore plenty witness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

That's when Coach started his boring speech about how proud he was to have us on the team, and how great the season was going to be. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was bored with her toys, and she’d read all her books. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It's the most boring county, so no one ever knows where it is. Blackburn's up north, isn't it?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Leave it to James to turn a bunch of boring typos into a crazy word search game. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looked bored and irritated, probably frustrated to be stationed far from the fun of the Hringkalla festivities. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had a disquieting new habit of boring into my eyes with his look as if actually bent on piercing my head, the better to analyze what went on inside it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That night I tried to concentrate on my homework for Monday, but it was boring. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On her finger was Nenya, the ring wrought of mithril, that bore a single white stone flickering like a frosty star. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed like he was good at everything—he helped Theo with calculus, he could destroy chemistry without blinking, he slept through his A+ in English, and everything else seemed to bore him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She stared vacantly at the wall opposite her, rocking herself gently, grunting regular, rhythmic little grunts, like a bored passenger on a long bus journey. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we filed out afterward, no one mentioned how boring the game itself had been. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“These concerts are so boring,” Jefferson had said to a girl with long wispy hair and tiny ears. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Look, that’d be fun in its usual somewhat boring way, but no.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mama’s eyes are boring a hole in Papa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella couldn’t understand how school could ever be boring. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Werner Joseph is nice too, but all the changes taking place lately have made him too quiet, so he seems boring. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even if this family bore no resemblance to any other fugitives, they still could not leave until they had obtained a bond signed by two well-known residents. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved forward, they bore down on the eraser from three sides, cutting off all retreat, pinning it down in murderous crossfire, the lieutenant leading the charge, the captain shouting commands, calling in air strikes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The askari sat on a rock nearby, bouncing the machine gun on his knees, looking bored. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean, it might be kind of boring, but you can come along with me." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Max had gone west to seek his fortune, and upon her blouse collar, Mrs. Brenner bore proof of his success—a tiny nugget of raw gold fashioned into a stickpin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Brother Jim usually got bored and asked to be excused, but I always stayed, fascinated by their tales. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Freshly dug graves and a crowded infirmary bore silent witness to the reality of war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His lance was striped in the same colors, and his shield bore the grape cluster sigil of his House. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Are these people so bored, so privileged, that they want to sleep outside on the ground instead of in their comfy beds? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s results bore important implications for nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Andrews had stopped by their table at dinner the first night, George thought he was just another boring millionaire coming over to kiss Aunt Daisy’s hand. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It only proves that you seem to think the job of a detective is jam-packed with all sorts of excitement. The truth is, it’s mostly boring.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The educational aspect of school was pretty boring. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I hope I am not boring you with all this talk of politics.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He has a boring kind of drive underneath him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The junior class picked the first speaker and the seniors the second, and anyone who had ever attended a Speaker Day agreed that they were torturously boring. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bored of these women, bored of these cavaliers who masqueraded as companions, bored of everything. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“What are you still doing here?” he said with a bored voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to sound kind of cool and bored. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Across their backs they bore round wicker shields covered with hides and boiled leather, displaying painted images of snakes and spiders, severed heads, bloody hammers, broken skulls, and demons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

More often than not, I felt self-conscious, certain I must be boring him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everything and everyone in Hatfield felt so familiar—even a little boring. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark blue and the mud bore a powdering of frost when Matt pulled himself from the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a singleshot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the hundreds of thousands of such women in the California data, many bore distinctively black names and many others did not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She turned and beheld two blond boys who bore a strong resemblance to Ivan. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The ceilings of some of the rooms in Montclair bore charred, black circles, in mute testimony to his intrepidity as an exploder. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe when somethin’ really bad happens in your life...maybe then you wish you could make it go back to being boring.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Under one eye she still bore faint scars where a knife had cut away her tears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The spots on the sun reminded him of clouds; he knew they were not clouds, but they bore the same relationship to the sun’s surface as clouds do to the Earth’s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sounds got louder and louder until they bored into Anya’s brain, tearing at her sanity. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The opiate of Zeus’s daughter bore this canny power. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders about the day, and if this will be the first time in the history of their every-other-Saturdays that Axel gets bored of Daniel and Daniel’s grandpa isn’t around to drive Daniel away. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If I tell Amá that I’m bored, she tells me to pick up a mop and start cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Another stick of pigeon that Nailer offered around to the group, a pack of hand-rolled cigarettes, a bottle of cheap liquor from Jim Thompson’s still, a thick silver earring, wide bored. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“That sounds like a pretty boring picture to me,” I told him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first and most boring part is about a place called Mesopotamia, so it’s taking some work on my part to look interested. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now it was merely a boring chore before exiting to the surface. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother never seemed bored, and that only further angered me at the fact that I was most of the time unsettled and unfulfilled in everything I did. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“At least not in New York. So why would I want to go somewhere boring?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another Sunday has rolled around; I don’t mind them as much as I did in the beginning, but they’re boring enough. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was the most boring guy I ever listened to. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He leaned back and yawned; he was becoming bored with pictures of David and Moses and the Sistine Ceiling; he wanted to find clues. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all bore more or less the same expression, one of expectancy mingled with apprehension. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s cool,” Brandy says, but she looks bored as she flops down on the grass and picks out clovers. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I do when I’m bored?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The Smeaths in our rendition of them are charmless, miserly, heavy as dough, boring as white margarine, which we claim they eat for dessert. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko was depressed at the idea of being stuck behind a desk, doing nothing for a whole boring month. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to hear but felt her eyes bore holes in the back of my head. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They bore no lights, yet as they walked a shimmer, like the light of the moon above the rim of the hills before it rises, seemed to fall about their feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The traditional difference here is that disinterested means “unbiased,” while uninterested means “bored” or “lacking interest.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But scouts warned me of the orc-host coming down out of the East Wall three nights ago, and among them they reported that some bore the white badges of Saruman. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a valet to a preacher, expected no promotions or medals, bore no arms, and had a meek faith in a loving Jesus which most soldiers found putrid. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I would do as the master of the house bade me, were this only a woodman’s cot, if I bore now any sword but Andúril.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“What can I say? Baking bores me to tears. All that work, and before you know it, it’s in one end and out the other.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was pretty boring hanging around the tavern day after day, making fires and chopping wood and cleaning up and looking after the chickens and Old Pru and the pigs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crate next to it bore the same address but was filled with machine parts—including, he noted, a red helmet and a blue one. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And she bore his violence and she looked at him and she said simply, “And to that one you gave my two pearls!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She bore twin sons to Poseidon—but fearing her father’s displeasure if he learned of the children’s birth, she abandoned them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn leaned back in his chair, looking expressionlessly at Mo. “How many more times are you going to tell me that, Silvertongue?” he asked in bored tones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But he did not answer, and they bore him away up the winding road to the Citadel and his father. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

So it wasn't just that things interested him because he didn't know from boring—it was the connection his brain made, connections he couldn't help but seek out. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But I know I won’t bore Humble, and if I don’t bore her either, that would make it like a major victory. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I was bored,” she said, smiling at him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s really boring, because they speak mostly in Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I would have been bored, but Bera-Bera talked to me all the time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And of course the Rad Lab was running at full bore, with the Bevatron back on track. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There may have been waiting thieves or a guard who saw me as I bore you away. Concern for your life overrode my caution. I am sorry.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You took long enough. This place is so boring;” said Honorata, yanking a flower from the ground and tossing it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

While Alice sniffed and wiped tears, I carefully bored a hole through the sapling to which the stone and hammer were attached, then slipped the cross stick into the hole half way. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a warm afternoon I had grown bored and decided, against my better judgment, to go to the east ridge of the valley to gather berries. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She left him childless after three years and married a man in Khost. She bore him three daughters. That’s what I am trying to tell you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It is only math, the dullest bore in the entire world, and he only lets her teach the very littlest kids anyway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls bore panel after panel, finely wrought, upon which painted images of saints had been set. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That is so. Cool! You’re so lucky. Letters just stand there all boring when I read. I hate reading. I’d rather do anything in the world than read.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn doesn’t do oceans, just sidewalks, buildings, and boring rivers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

After two years in Chicago, it all felt terribly boring and rustic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The work is back-breaking and boring, and the sun burns my black pajama clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight down upon the Nazgûl they bore, stooping suddenly out of the high airs, and the rush of their wide wings as they passed over was like a gale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe this day wasn’t so boring after all. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It made me think maybe brown eyes weren’t so boring after all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her brother was several years younger and bore no weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“So not only is our idea boring, it’s been done before,” Levi says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of a voice can be soothing; surely he must be bored and restless with inactivity. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The guys acted extremely bored, and Leo wondered why they were hanging around. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I got really bored, so I decided to pick a theme song! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sons she bore him, Zetes and Calais, went on the Quest of the Golden Fleece with Jason. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slid her mother’s cell phone through her curtain-like waterfall of hair, studied it silently, and then announced in a bored voice, “It’s from those kids’ mom.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their beady little eyes bored into the darkness beyond the cave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if they bored the audience to death before I came on! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry bowed, and the lady showed him the shield, which was like the shield that had been given to Gimli, and it bore on it the device of the white horse. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the young Dawn came bright into the East spreading her finger tips of rose, Telemakhos, the king’s son, tied on his rawhide sandals and took the lance that bore his handgrip. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women would lean over and sniff the flowers, and the men would smile and pretend they weren’t bored to death. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hours later, Roza and I are sitting against the wall of the main cabin, sun-tired and bored, quizzing each other on math theorems. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once, fifty miles down the valley, my father bored a well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rabbit, do you know what we bored into today? A meteorite.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s new target was Stalingrad, a large industrial city on the Volga—and the one that bore Stalin’s name, an insult to Stalin himself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Shukumar was soon bored; he was unable to decipher the literary diction, and couldn’t join the rest of the audience as they sighed and nodded solemnly after certain phrases. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She waggled her fingers at him like she was bored. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time a farmer planted a little seed in his garden, and after a while it sprouted and became a vine and bore many squashes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted a gold cross, not the boring daffodils Dad had given me that morning. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Don’t get the idea it was boring, though. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite Ron’s frequent complaints that Scabbers was both boring and useless, he was sure Ron would be very miserable if Scabbers died. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade days flowed in their hungry path and I grew more conscious of myself; I sat in classes, bored, wondering, dreaming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn Madden climbed back into the tractor's driving seat, bored. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When it got late and we were bored of watching people we went down by the beach and found this quiet place, hidden from the boardwalk, where we could sleep for the night. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That there are no boring parts in this, Shakespeare’s greatest play of all.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I did not recognize him, but he bore himself like a thoroughly trained agent. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have some questions, too,” said Njemile, “and I’m also bored of Mr. Jacobs here actin’ like he’s conflicted about telling the truth.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was even more useless and boring than being a messenger. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Being seventeen and bored in a small town, I like to pretend sometimes that I’m a pessimist. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t remember much, only that it was rather uncomfortable and kind of boring. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The seal was hungry one day, or bored, perhaps, so she ate one hundred pennies. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. God, I’m bored. Are you far away?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The young lady, however, seemed slightly bored with her own singing ability, or perhaps just with the time and place; twice, between verses, I saw her yawn. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Kainene always made sure they didn’t stay long, and she didn’t ask him to meet them because she said they would bore him, so he stayed upstairs reading or scribbling until they left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had landed nose-first full bore against the only rock outcropping within a hundred yards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, may I ask? It’s not going to make you any less bored. And we might as well start calling it Three Questions, because it doesn’t take you five anymore.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t be a diamond that big. Looks like metal. Do you think we’ve bored into a buried locomotive?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her role developed from a pattern of talk she often heard from bored, well-to-do white women where she worked, in an East Side beauty salon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the palaces and museums that bore their names, but about the people themselves, he knew nothing. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Tannenbaum has snacks and a slide show of all of us working so that people don’t get bored waiting in the hall for their turn to tour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Frank, Bill and Lillian, lying flat on the parlor floor and peeking through the doors, bore witness to the proposal and to Anne’s none-too-original rejection. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody with legs would come out to see any performer who bore the magic name “New York.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An agent sits at a desk at the front of the room, speaking in the most boring monotone I’ve ever heard. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The torso still bore the marks of battle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He looked bored and miserable as he huddled there alone, but Jon would have traded places with him in an instant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I worried that he was bored, but after a while I got too caught up in the music to care. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed detached, almost bored, but perfectly friendly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he meant, of course, was, It’s not yet boring enough. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she added that Shoshana, her four-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, wanted to know if my parents had a VCR so she could watch Pinocchio, just in case she got bored. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wooden armor had been freshly painted, so one bore the stag of the usurper Robert Baratheon, the other the golden lion of House Lannister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I could tell you right now it wasn’t ’cause we were bored or ’cause we love cartoons so much. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their glowing yellow eyes bored right into me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

By the time I removed my crampons to walk the last hundred yards to the tents, the sun felt like it was boring a hole through the crown of my skull. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said “smooth” was boring but “textured” was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever it was that had tried to hurt me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a sense, this pursuit of the Ph.D. was a bore to a mind that worked too fast to be satisfied with the tedium involved in thesis research. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He bore down on the skunk at the entrance to his den. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I am bored and disgusted with him,” he said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing next to the wall, smoking himself to death and looking bored as hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The one on the tall staff bore the golden lion, as she'd feared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The few times I did go, I was so bored I wanted to tear out all of my hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With each reading each book took on new life, exposed new angles to the story, with the result that I was never bored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are brief moments of tension—a sister who is bored by the dolphins, a spot where Dad gets frustrated about the lack of available parking spaces. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I actually found the definition from Google Translate one night when I was bored, but I’ll never tell her! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Jo bore up very well till the last flutter of blue ribbon vanished, when she retired to her refuge, the garret, and cried till she couldn’t cry any more. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t think I could be boring enough for the Aurora County News. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a triumphal procession, all pointing and all saying at once, “Look there! Look there!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What was it you wanted to show me? Oh, yes—the fancy writing. Really nice. Lucky you to find it. Come and see me again soon, all right? I get so bored in that office.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Viola. Do you think I’m boring? Do you think I’m an idiot?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Books—pretty good, except Joseph got a copy of Walden, which looked about as boring as wool socks. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The old bull bore down upon him, swinging his head and bellowing so loud it echoed against the cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to them on the catwalk, three bored- looking Amazon guards leaned against their spears and gazed at little black tablets in their hands like they were reading. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He never noticed that I bore some substantial scratches on my arms and that Granddaddy’s nails were rimmed with crescents of dark paint. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And they did so, and lifting up the bed they bore it from the chamber. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

An adult considers constant repetition boring, because it requires reliving the same experience over and again. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast things settled down to a boring normal. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were bored and felt like leaving class early before the bell, they just got up and walked out before the bell. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spumed by both her lovers, she silently bore the gossip about her reputation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He gave it when he was bored and wanted some excitement with his children. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no sunglasses on now, and his eyes bored into mine. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dropping his books, Ben turned to face the four antagonists who now bore down on him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for this sorry reproduction of an Irish pub before us, nothing in this new land bore the slightest resemblance to the world we knew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His helmet bore a crest of blue and gold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And now Ms. Hardwick is reading another boring book in class, and April hasn’t smiled at you since the lunchroom brawl. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For example, I got bored very quickly with the prosecutor’s speech. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Its label bore a death’s head, and broken red wax surrounded its unstoppered mouth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Things were quiet for a few days, even boring. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, then everybody says my reports are boring, or they don’t say it, they just sigh like a Jennifer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Is there a point to this, beyond your obsession with those marks in the garden? Are you that bored?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To-night, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the signs of an internal struggle. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what any of it meant, but I decided it was all far too boring to be important. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She seemed, indeed, rather bored by the whole proceeding, remaining curled up in her corner, staring dreamily out through the window whilst the men searched her luggage in the compartment next door. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried a book on famous classical architecture, written in Ancient Greek, to read when she got bored, and a long bronze knife, hidden in her shirt sleeve. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She’d already been alive for a whole twelve and a half weeks, and she wanted to tell Brightbill about every exciting thing, and every boring thing, that had ever happened to her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He might have saved us from a heck of a boring summer, but really, we ended up saving him, too. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My parents are still married. I have to call them at the same time every night—in thirty minutes, actually. They're overprotective, I guess, but normal. We're really boring.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“No cameras, no drones,” the guard at the gate repeats over and over in a bored tone. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time since we sat down, she doesn’t seem irritated or bored. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I am almost of the age my mother was when she bore me. Do you see me? Do you remember her?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hope they didn't bore you silly with all the village gossip.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a dud. His idea of a revolution is coloring outside the lines. Ugh! What a bore.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But I feel so boring standing next to her.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Terrance would not be content to merely discipline her for running away; he would make her life an ornate hell until he got bored, then have her dispatched in a gory exhibition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But she bore the impact with a firmness of character and a bravery that were admirable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But, jeez, it was so boring, so deadly at home—what did they have to live for? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked at him now, she couldn’t help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment from far off the wind bore to their listening ears the howling of wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sure, I get picked on—mostly when Mike, Eddie, and Snap are bored. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“All these teachers is boring me to death.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her newly freed fro still bore the traces of Bennie’s handiwork, but Sierra didn’t feel like combing it out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had learned about static cling from watching those boring women who talked about it on television, but could he really stick to a sock? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Up till now I thought my life was too boring to think about, let alone write about, but that's changing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

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. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I just want to get out of here. I’m bored out of my skull.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Such prose, however, bore the unmistakable whiff of hurt feelings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Camp 14 had cut Shin out of this propaganda loop, and he listened to the West’s counterpropaganda with the ears of a child— curious, confused, sometimes even bored, but always lacking in context. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bore this treasure off the beach, and piled it close around the roots of the olive tree, that no one passing should steal Odysseus’ gear before he woke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The screen is just boring because the cells are so small, even with a microscope you can’t see them sometimes.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It looked, to her, like a boxy sack on which a bored person had haphazardly stuck sequins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They talked about weddings and jobs and weather and other boring grown-up stuff after that. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walked into bio the next day, prepared to make the herculean effort to be an aloof, boring lab partner yet again, when the whole thing finally just fell apart. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

All my brothers except for Harry bore the names of proud Texas heroes, many of whom had laid down their lives at the Alamo. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In order not to become bored, he dedicated himself to the task of repairing the many things that needed fixing in the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I guess it would be boring if we all had the same view. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jake wondered if the reason Mr. Keeney was so bored all the time was because no one ever asked him any interesting or challenging questions. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Despite what boring Hobbits like Fatty Bolger might have thought, I did not go home and have falafel for dinner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just had eighty years of pleasantly boring days,” she said, raising up on one elbow from the shady spot where she’d been sleeping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I clear my throat and catch a quick look at myself in the mirror: that new red shirt and those jeans, my boring new slip-on shoes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You may think I’m a boring old Keeper, but someday you’ll understand the importance of these lessons.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers,” he promised, and I immediately felt like I shouldn’t have told him about it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s bored, poor man,” said Tzara, with a flat lack of pity, “Nothing to destroy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then the ants bore into my eyes and I black out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The poems hadn’t been as boring as I thought they would, but today I was about to explode. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The books, which she said were Mrs. Smith’s son’s schoolbooks, bore no resemblance whatsoever to the ones we used at my school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Locke brings up the rear, looking bored, his hair the precise color of fox fur. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s bored, scuffing the ground with his foot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I could introduce you to my colleagues, treat you to the best curry outside India, and show you just how boring the life of an astrophysicist can be. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"My lords," she said then, "Lord Eddard was your liege, but I shared his bed and bore his children. Do you think I love him any less than you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If he could have bored holes in Gollum with his eyes, he would have done. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were going to spend another long, boring day locked up in the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Booth was very pale and his face bore signs of suffering. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come any time,” said Marian, “if you are feeling bored. You only have to follow the glades. And you, Wart, be careful of that collar-bone for a few days.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so it happened to him again and again, until it was boring. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A few scorings, and small flake-like splinters near the base, were all the marks that it bore of the fury of the Ents. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His body, she later discovered, bore almost no bruises, but was full of strange, painful swellings, and there was a welt above one eye. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserved, so to this day, the number Lizzy Sobek bore on her forearm remains a mystery. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Angie watches them awhile until she gets too bored and drags them away with her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Artemis and I bore the weight together. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The driver, tired and bored, hadn’t paid attention to who had gotten off. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Something like, ‘The classes here are just as boring as in the school I’m going to now.’” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The real story is dead boring. I grew up in London with me mum and dad, sister, brother, and a parakeet named Benny Hill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We paid the fine — ten thousand marks — bore curses, blows, spittle, and stones, but that, of course, was not enough. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It bore no trace of pain or self-pity, carrying only good humor and softness and just the tiniest hint of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I know you get bored when I go into the math, so I'll summarize: The small, constant thrust of Hermes's ion drives is much harder to deal with than the large point-thrusts of presupply probes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The repetition was so relentless that, instead of feeling sharper, I was actually starting to feel blurry and a little bored—which might be why I started wobbling on my beam routine. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They remained healthy and bored, having sat in their cages in the cave for weeks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s run like a police state, and it’s boring and clueless.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bored two holes in each of the disks, using thorns and fine sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. D looked bored, still reading his magazine. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing the picture of someone with your exact same birthday and almost your exact same name who’d been kidnapped wasn’t boring. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded exciting, but right now, in the first part of the story—the suffering part—Tendai thought he would rather be home and bored. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s so boring here in Switzerland,” Berg said, trying to draw Heisenberg into a political discussion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca did not deny it, and once the news was confirmed, Clara wrote it down in her notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe how bored I was at the moment. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lets me cry for a while, but it must bore him, because the dazzling smile disappears and now his lip is twisted into a sneer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though of course,” said Spurge, “Werfel’s book is boring.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Each book bore it, and each was bound in a different color. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All the way down the path from the tipple, I could feel his eyes boring into the back of my head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that War and Peace bored him exactly, but rather that his mind couldn’t focus on it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was the most boring book I could find. I thought I might drop it off after dinner.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It means, “I’m being frank when I say he’s boring.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The duke’s black eyes bored into her, though, and he frowned as he put a hand on her elbow and steered her on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at Amah closely, his eyes boring into her face as if searching. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I got bored sitting on that washbowl after a while, so I backed up a few feet and started doing this tap dance, just for the hell of it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The real Henry is beautiful, distant, boring, and closed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even the boring Witness songs sound good to me, the words telling us how God wants us to behave, what he wants us to do, Be glad you nations with his people! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jody was not moved by an impulse of cruelty; he was bored with the long hot afternoon. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had his whole life ahead of him to make money if he could, time enough to be bored and to await death, without Rosa. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her tombstone bore the inscription “Meet Me in Heaven.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And when they got bored they could just go outside and ride their skateboards or bikes or go to the mall. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For monotonous months I had circled the mail on the hall table like a buzzard, poking through endless boring letters and bills before turning away each day in blank disappointment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“God that was boring. That was almost worse than class.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It bore the running horse, white upon green, that was the emblem of the House of Eorl. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the evening stabbing at the remote control, trying to find a show that wasn’t too boring or confusing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This is boring,” Trevor said to me in a low voice. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His shoulders stooped as though he bore a great weight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Edward kept busy in programs planned for children his age and the grown-ups made friends and talked their usual boring grown-up talk. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed boisterously at what she had done and then he thought of a merry thing to say, “So this is why you bore two jewels in your bosom!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of myself on the television screen on the wall that's airing my arrival live and feel gratified that I appear almost bored. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He said they bored the living mess out of him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When they arrived home at nightfall, Bull bore his son past his mother, his brother, and his sisters, past a birthday cake, and presents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her papers in order, and salvaged her notebooks that bore witness to life from the hidden corners of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would be the most boring day of his life. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t kidding about the hospital being boring. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The older couple wore matching gold bands on their rough and callused ring fingers, and the man’s nails, like Sparrow’s, bore dark crescents from working with soil. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Why would anyone want to be in a boring department like that?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This was almost as boring as watching my mother get her face powder mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It promised a boring social life, too, which was fine with them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I have to get started on a project about solar ovens, but it is so boring!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Most often though, An said, prisoners were beaten, sometimes to death, simply because guards were bored or in a sour mood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the man in a blue uniform and a bored expression finally calls us up to the desk, I hold my breath. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It may be all very delightful to those concerned but as I like unmarried women better than those in the blessed state, I vote it a bore....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classes are boring and most of the teachers don’t care if you live or die. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better than boring you to death,” I said, pulling back onto my side of the table. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I don’t want anyone to get bored and quit reading halfway through.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Like Claire, most people found the Matching boring—important, of course, but with few surprises. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You can get sick of anything if you have too much of it, like all the petty luxuries my mother bought and quickly grew bored with. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The covers were real interesting but the insides were real boring. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like my boring hair that just hangs there. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Kids appeared to think of school as a chore, a bore. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How does Kazi take all these plain boring foods—bitter vegetables, dried lentils, flour, oil, spices—and turn them into something so warm and delicious every time? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were brawny and surly, and their faces bore the scars of the knife fights that were common among gang members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself shushed and needled out of the room, lest he wake the baby, or frighten the baby, or bore the baby to death with poetry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So overweening, now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy at morning when I climbed the sky of stars, and evening, when I bore westward from heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was all a big relief to Maniac, finding out he wasn’t really white, because the way he figured, white was about the most boring color of all. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to walk out of her classroom because he was bored, and she said to him, “Enrique, sit back down!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

For me, the work could be hard, but was usually more boring than physically wearing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, bored with waiting for him in the hotel lobby, Blanca decided to pay a visit to her mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serving men had begun to move amongst the guests as the seneschal was speaking, filling cups from the flagons that they bore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Everyone put some thought into it— maybe when we get right nice and bored we can have another Gathering to talk about it. Good that?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Adam stopped in New York long enough to buy clothes for himself and Cathy before they climbed on the train which bore them across the continent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We killed Operation and the patient forever, but Dean says he got bored of it yonks ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“So why are we going to this museum,” Calista asked, “if you think it’s so boring?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be so boring here this weekend. Ask your mom and dad about Thanksgiving. I really want to go.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each bench bore the name of an Osage family, and as I walked around to the southern side of the pavilion, I found the one I was looking for: “Burkhart.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This is a game we play when we are tense and bored. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother’s kind eyes feel like two drills boring a hole in my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My arms bore the whole weight of me as the metal lurched beneath me and I had to stretch through my toes to balance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

So that she finally deserved, as much as the others, the name of Rebeca Buendía, the only one that she ever had and that she bore with dignity until her death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Meme bore up under the exhibitions with the same stoicism that she had dedicated to her apprenticeship. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So, when he’s bored or stressed or between coffee refills, he’ll check for a text bubble popping up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No,” I joked, “’cause you usually just talk about boring old people stuff.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from those two events, this month was going to be so boring—and it was all his father’s fault. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was bored, Djo, and a little lonesome in my life with the nuns. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ready with my pad for jotting down random thoughts I could use later in my writing, just in case the tar pits turned out to be super boring. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Life on the farm is boring and dull, but at least there is enough to eat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wanted to call her Clara, but her grandmother did not believe in repeating names, because it created confusion in her notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. They get bored with camping out, and we can’t make them stay.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She, however, stepped over into madness, a madness which protected her from us simply because it bored us in the end. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His owner grew bored and sold the boy south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Shadow picked up the hand piece and did his best to sound bored. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Get up and talk to me. I’m bored. I’m hyper. I don’t want to go home to Claire and her hellish Saturday mood swings.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Every day that she waited for him to become who he had been, he bore the burden of her loneliness in addition to his own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I eat dinner and draw and watch YouTube videos, just like I used to do to kill time pre-Stella’s intervention, but it all feels extra boring now. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When he finally was able to scrutinize the draft, he found that it bore all the flaws of Teller’s oratorical style: it was too long, too argumentative, and too emotional. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You could make it up to me by telling Mom you’re craving carne asada. She also always serves really boring meals when we have kids here, and that bugs me, too.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

During the coldest winter month, we were all bored, adults and children alike. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being a restless child, he quickly grew bored with the familiarity of the dances and chose instead to watch the audiences. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I can’t fly in the middle of social studies, no matter how boring it is. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t do nothing. Without soccer, life was boring.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Alternately bored and frightened at home, the playground was his joy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so pleased that I forgot how sore my fingers were from boring the holes in the hard shells. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill’s father leaned forward, hands on the table, his eyes boring into Dill. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“You too, Charlie. Give my regards to your mother,” he said, which had to be the most obvious thing he ever said in his boring little accountant’s life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If you drew too much heat, you bore a certain risk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? Well, I thought I’d let you have the vacation your Pa and stepmother wanted for you. There’s plenty of ironing if you’re bored. Teach you what wash day is all about.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Piggy bore this with a sort of humble patience. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the growing weight of the Ring, a burden on the body and a torment to his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They gave burial to the piteous dead, or bore the bodies of voung men from other islands down to the port, thence to be ferried home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Next he bored holes at the edge of the box opening. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tendai was bored with Gondwannans, who lived far to the north and probably carried on their boring lives in exactly the same way as Zimbabweans. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His clever hands built a well-boring rig, and he bored wells on the lands of luckier men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got bored of the photographs and started snoring away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You will stay out of sight until evening. You may play with Pasha’s Favorite if you’re bored.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And it went so fast and smoothly that it seemed not to happen to me but to someone who actually bore my new name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So bored was the trader with the display, one he had witnessed countless times before, that he only halfheartedly beat the distraught family. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even the language of his thoughts—variation, mutation, survival, and selection—bore striking similarities to Darwin's. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Its steep slopes still bore the marks of humanity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she’d gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through the Ages. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the sharks become bored and stop following us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Babu was indifferent to the outburst and to the searing stare that bored into him like a drill. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I got bored and went to your house to see if you were there, but you weren’t.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it can be boring, and when we’re bored we do some crazy things to pass the time—like throwing rocks at cars. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was long, with a high forehead, he had deep darkling eyes, hard to fathom, though the look that they now bore was grave and benevolent, and a little weary. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Still, nobody seemed to be paying him any attention, and the Executive on duty only gave him a bored look and turned away. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering if he liked it, if he was bored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The job itself was very boring—I worked in the filing department of the administrative building of the university. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Those sailors are playing games with you. They’re almost as bored up there as we are down here.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But after a while, I’d get bored and wander to the back of the prayer hall and run around with the other kids while different ladies took turns hushing us. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I remember it being terribly boring. But I’m glad you’re enjoying it.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It bore an uncanny resemblance to a prison: a large, bricked-in compound with walls at least twice his height. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were bored, or lonely, and wanted someone to talk to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was slow and boring but familiar, which was what I needed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And his father...his father would always be preoccupied with conquest—and wouldn’t stop until every continent bore Adarlan’s flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

By then, after a year of using my employee discount at the Gap, my wardrobe bore a striking resemblance to that of Ali MacGraw in Love Story. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean, when was the last time my trees bore fruit? I, for one, can’t remember.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is. Want to hear something more boring? I—we—have a condo.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He says it’s boring and a waste of time, especially gym. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Being lazy had made me bored and hungry, so I decided to get out of bed, get dressed and see what Ruthanne had left me to eat. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So boring during the day and easy to escape at night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous white building on the sea-front and it looked to me like a pretty boring place to spend a summer holiday in. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Next time, ask me first before you use sweetgrass on me. Now I’m going to be up, and everyone is asleep. I can’t read with no lights. I’m going to be bored.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Of his face, I couldn’t see much more than the boring holes of his irises, which appeared as dark and empty as his gun’s muzzle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“No promises. You don’t want your job to get too boring, do you?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had this little kid with her that was bored as hell and had to go to the bathroom, but she wouldn't take him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Meecham family prepared for midnight Mass. Mary Anne and Ben, fully dressed, knelt before the Christmas tree rattling presents that bore their names. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day she wanted me to practice walking across the room with her and Amber, but after awhile I was bored and said so. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We hit some traffic as we got into the city, and Darius was playing the most boring music ever. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It looks like Elliott’s family is having a pretty boring argument over pizza. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his free time at the Observer’s office and was always complaining, always gorging himself on the scarce food, and bored both Johnny and Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His constricted domestic routine, plus what he regarded as an often boring job, were becoming more suffocating as the novelty of being in Chicago wore off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people look bored, amused, impatient, self-satisfied—but most of all, they look rich. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know because I’m so bored, I start counting. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Percy thought about the dazed telkhines, the Nereids and hippocampi, all swimming in bored, lazy circles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it was no monster, only a boring old bus, doing what boring old buses always did—letting off passengers at the bus stop. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lecture might have gone on for some time, but Gebu had evidently grown bored with baiting him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I have not been outside since the storm began, and I am bored for the first time since I ran away from home eight months ago to live on the land. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dark-skinned Attendants are stationed along the wall, looking bored. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Oliver spent a dreadfully boring twenty-three minutes looking through Hyacinth’s button collection. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I could feel his eyeballs boring into my brain. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At all times of the day and most of the night you could see bored faces peeping out of windows. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They bored all their acquaintances with her cuteness and they would have killed her with food if in the end she hadn’t had better sense than they. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, once again I bore screecher perfume, which would make it difficult for me to pass unnoticed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A dopey letter is still a dopey letter, no matter how you dress it up; and there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She bore patiently Wang Lung’s look, without embarrassment or response, simply waiting until he had seen her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He had a medal struck which bore the words ‘Que sçay-jei—What do I know?’—over the image of a pair of scales. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I cleared my mind with one of the tricks I’d already learned, and bore down on believing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In pity for his friend, and perhaps for himself, Vetch tried to turn aside for a little that rude ceaseless wind that bore the rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because The Tempest was even better than The Merchant of Venice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ranofer told him, fairly spitting out his frustration, what he did, and how he must keep his mind on it, no matter how tired or bored he was. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

His scars were as bad as ever — in truth, he now bore a distinct resemblance to Mad-Eye Moody, though thankfully with both eyes and legs — but in personality he seemed just the same as ever. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the moon that allowed me to make out a sign hanging over the door, which bore an image of a white stag, ghostlike in the faint light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Righting himself, he removes his hat and mops his brow. dud: Here, I’m getting a bit bored with this. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After a while, she got bored and wandered off to the kitchen door, hoping to cadge a handout from Viola. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I lean against the wall, as if I’m bored. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A while later, when Evie gets bored of lying there, I get her up and we go downstairs and leave Tom to snooze. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were now spending lesson after lesson learning how to look after flobberworms, which had to be some of the most boring creatures in existence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Armelio bangs on his chair with some sticks and gets bored, leaves the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They bore a distinct similarity to the ones Mama had said to her at the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sarai looked at the rich earthen color of her arms, and she knew, though it was hidden, that she bore an elilith on her belly like a human girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They turned all those beautiful golden sculptures into boring Spanish coins and shipped boatloads of them back to the king and queen of Spain, who loved the gold but wanted even more. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even though the Morse code class he taught was so boring that it made us want to go to sleep, Corporal Radant was the teacher we liked best. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Thistlewood, the plantation owner who cataloged his sexual exploits, had a lifelong relationship with a slave named Phibbah, whom, by all accounts, he adored, and who bore him a son. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was afraid she would stop coming, that he would disappoint her—or even worse, bore her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the time he bore her nagging patiently, but when he did not, terrible fights ensued. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She instructed him to go back to the campsite if he got bored, not to go wandering about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We joked about all the commemorative marches and boring speeches we had been spared by leaving this particular weekend. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had opened their ranks only to the gentle young dog when he arrived years later; but, fond as they were of him, the affection they bore for one another was something quite apart. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A policeman, bored and tired, dragged his nightstick along the bars of an iron fence. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at all of those could make a person keel over, just from how boring they were. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was like when she’d be sitting in class for forty-five minutes and finally get so bored she’d notice the stupid heater had been clacking and smashing away the whole time. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Stop howling. Your husband was a fool and you are a bore. I am not sorry I killed him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her passport, which the Greek government had granted under the condition that she leave the country immediately, bore her mother’s maiden name, Aristos, instead of Stephanides. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The preferred sense of disinterested as “impartial,” for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as “bored.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ajax hurled Hector to the ground, although before he could wound him Aeneas lifted him and bore him away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is just for the sake of the boys, Mr Joseph Hooper thought, for he shifted in his uncomfortable seat and was bored with the circus. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Brian came to the ceremony, but Lori and Maureen had to work, and Mom said it would just be a lot of boring speeches about the long and winding road of life. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dog watched this operation, and then, yawning, he was suddenly bored. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove to the arboretum, and she told me about every single plant we saw, and it wasn’t even boring because she had a way of making things fascinating. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They flicked restlessly from scene to scene and spent a lot of time studying boring places, like the spaces behind pillars or curtains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The medic said, “He told me to tell you you’re boring. He’s playing cards with some of the guys. You want to go down there?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bored docker resorted to timing Smith as he walked down the track, catching him at a clip of thirty- five minutes for the half mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I’m so lonely and bored without Carla or any of my other cousins around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From this spot, you could spy Jim’s soddy—at least the roof, from which grew a cherry tree that Jim swore bore the best pie cherries in all of Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Well, maybe we can do some things to make it less boring for you. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two great trolls appeared; they bore great slabs of stone, and flung them down to serve as gangways over the fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The room was abuzz with the news that Derek Rude had come out to his family and that his date was a dark-haired boy who bore a slight resemblance to Finn O’Sullivan. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Because she had finished breakfast earlier than she expected, because she was bored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is supposed to bore us into submission or prepare us for an insane asylum. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The University itself consisted of about fifteen buildings that bore little resemblance to each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A small table in the shadows bore a plate and a glass, thickly covered with dust. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is a marvel indeed,” they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had no food to eat and bore few or no young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny — I always think my life is so massively boring, but she wanted to know every little detail. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty boring if you’re just sitting there, so I slept on and off until, in the early evening, we turned off Interstate 10 somewhere in western Florida. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were wealthy and at the peaks of their careers, but all also bore the scars of nineteenth-century life, their pasts full of wrecked rail cars, fevers, and the premature deaths of loved ones. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote in her notebooks that bore witness to life for fifty years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these things only showed that he was good-natured, polite, and very often bored. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Unh-uh. Sam Houston, in Texas. I did basic there and then went right into medical school. I got assigned to the hospital in Devens, but it got boring. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwydion was at Taran’s side as the first rider bore down on them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“And to tell the truth,” said Lenina, “I’m beginning to get just a tiny bit bored with nothing but Henry every day.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt in my wallet for the pad and pencil, then slipped into the stream of people which bore me, like a stick on the flood, through the entrance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only ones who acted like they were completely bored were Betty and her group of followers. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The trike bore down on them; the cloaked rider raised his rifle, and then a shot rang out from right next to Magdalys. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Nine months later she bore him a son. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Quite well. It’s incredible, really, how well-crafted some of the ornaments are, and they were clearly intended to be art; it wasn’t an accident at all….I mustn’t bore you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What if we don’t want to stay in this stupid, boring town?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Upon one cheek he bore a brand: a demon’s mask. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying you have to be academic or boring. Keep your style but add more depth.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in black mourning robes, and his face bore the same inconsolable expression I’d seen when we spoke on the phone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Until that day, Most sincerely, Stephen Hawking The week was incredibly boring, except for when I remembered the key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When my friends and I were younger and we were at the mall bored out of our minds, we used to play this game. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was restless, that was clear, bored and confined by the Tallis household, and soon she would be gone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Daylight and evening in his own great hall he bore it, patient as a stone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of mother’s milk and conversation transformed Blanca into a healthy, almost pretty child who bore no resemblance at all to the armadillo she had been at birth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing is as boring as other people’s dreams. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But she soon became bored and she would sit through the interviews, half listening and half present. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hope is so very draining. It’s a bore, actually.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they mounted it upon a dining table with nails and strapping, and bore it up to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His visit, however, bore no relation to science. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I guess when I get bored I like to mess with Rondell for some reason. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

This all flashes through my head in an instant as President Snow’s eyes bore into me on the heels of his threat to kill Gale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had wanted to bore me to death, even though she said that she didn’t—which was all part of the strategy. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once, two girls from my class walked by not far from me, and I called but, “School sure is boring, isn’t it?” but they ignored me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was entertaining—most unwillingly—a “friend,” except that he wasn’t, he was a stupid little bore and a maddening nuisance. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I know—they were smoking, but I wasn’t. My class is so boring, and I just wanted to shoot the ball around. That’s it, I promise.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hana always seems a little bit bored, as if there’s something better going on and if you would just stop bugging her, she could get back to it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I’m bored, I can’t help but think what my life would be like if I hadn’t written the book. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I jumped in and out of Flint around seven times before that got boring and I decided I’d better head for Grand Rapids. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The experiment itself didn’t interest me, but his company was never boring. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“This sheet says his favorite food is mutton pie. I literally cannot think of a more boring food. He’s like a cardboard cutout of a person.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Samuel Riddle bore a startling resemblance to the illustrated figure on a Monopoly board. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were home for a few days and already bored. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Not because she wanted to take dance classes, or be a part of their group, or go to the community pool so regularly it became boring. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These monkeys were creative little boogers, she thought, and they were bored. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the goat had chewed off his splint and, apparently bored with the comfort of the barn, pushed through the doors and followed Anya out to the onion fields. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hickock continued writing letters protesting his conviction, and one of these at last bore fruit. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast, a four-page document was apparently faxed and emailed to law-enforcement agencies in the region, and to National Guard units headed to the Gulf area. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was too worked up to sleep, but not bored enough to do homework, so I killed an hour on the Internet, which is how I ended up stalking Marcus’s SnowFlake page. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Minho sighed as if bored, then muttered, almost to himself, “Why do you shanks always come in here asking stupid questions? It’s really annoying.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s really boring here compared to there.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rough concrete pillars stood proud above the courthouse steps, looking weathered and bored, like they were tired of carrying the weight of the law on their shoulders. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t bored, but I did wish I was doing something more. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So there were eyes on Guenever now—not the eyes of strong suspicion or of warm connivance, but the bored looks of calculation and the cold ones of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Johnny wants me to shut up. I’m boring you and Mirren.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, surely not the whole trip,” said Ripred, bored to pieces by the argument. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Virginia left the Union she bore his home away as surely as if she were a ship setting out to sea, and what was left behind on the shore was not his any more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale, bored, regarding me with a kind of intimate amusement in the jaded light. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Guys that are very boring--But I have to be careful about that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Children showed up with their cats and dogs and parakeets, a bunch of boring, everyday pets. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A short way beyond the way-meeting, after another steep incline, a flying bridge of stone leapt over the chasm and bore the road across into the tumbled slopes and glens of the Morgai. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Atlas, who bore the vault of heaven upon his shoulders, was the father of the Hesperides, so Hercules went to him and asked him to get the apples for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bore witness to what was yet to come. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If all of us only ever did what we were allowed to do, the world would be a pretty boring place,” Styx said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For the most part they were unspeakably boring, all about life in a traditional fishing village and the enduring mysteries of animal husbandry, but one exhibit stood out from the rest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Not that Oliver was checking out his gifts, but he did notice that many of the presents bore his name, while he had not contributed anything. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When she attended a talk with him, he would make sure to say it could have been better, or that the first ten minutes were boring, as though to preempt her own criticisms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She depressed me, bored me, angered me, drove me crazy. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the brutality, the students were committed to nonviolence and for the most part bore the insults and indignities without striking back. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered them with flying fingers and greedy hearts and bore them away in triumph, with a glow at least as bright as the sun on those shining scales. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hand clutched a tall pike, the head of which bore a sharp point and a fearsome curved blade. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But I had grown restless and bored with my work, and I sensed that God had a new direction in mind for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty boring, but the athletes, well, you know. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It had all been so ordinary, even boring, and now it seemed like a fairy tale. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Martin nods and scratches his head and looks bored. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Tunis, our first stop, we met with the minister of defense, who bore a striking resemblance to Chief Luthuli. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That bore Walder Frey's seal beyond a doubt, Catelyn thought bitterly; hold back, wait, watch, take no risk unless forced to it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The score on the game was zero to zero, fourth quarter, making this the most boring game ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had a distracted and bored are-we-there-yet look on her face. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Finding themselves quite in agreement about politics, however, they soon found such conversation boring and decided to drop the subject. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to wait the dog out, but after three or four minutes on the log, it gets boring and I start off again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt cut away from him, each of them living and breathing in separate spheres, he bored and spiritless in Nsukka, she bored and spiritless in Lagos, and everything curdled in lethargy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lonely, sad, and pregnant, Myrta joined them at the house and there bore a daughter, Lucy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The plays of William Shakespeare,” said Mrs. Baker, “which can never be boring to the true soul. Open it to The Merchant of Venice.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Until they got bored with its bleating and slaughtered it for supper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ron, whose hands and forearms still bore scratches and cuts from Hermione’s bird attack, was taking a defensive and resentful tone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I know this all probably sounds kinda weird, maybe even creepy, but it's something to do when you're bored. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It would have saved me the most boring date of my life. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His Unsullied closed the shroud once more, lifted the dead man onto their shoulders, and bore him from the hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cold, black eyes were boring once more into Harry’s; he tried not to look into them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was twice the height of a normal human and muscled like a sprinter, and from the shoulders up he bore a thick-maned lion's head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He would lecture me about his latest research into the boring life of some dead guy while I ate tiny forkfuls of mushroom omelette and nibbles of cinnamon bagel with butter. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You were seen entering the catacombs last night after curfew”—the Mask almost sounds bored—“in the company of known Scholar rebels.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I was bored and my mind wandered. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Even in the moonlight, Tristran could see that the clothes he was laying out bore no manner of resemblance to the clothes that Tristran had removed earlier in the day. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was home to one runway and about five hundred bored American servicemen, mostly marines. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Throughout his life Hercules had this perfect confidence that no matter who was against him he could never be defeated, and facts bore him out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I headed back to the woods, where I picked a few bachelor buttons that grew wild in the plots of sunshine before getting bored and tossing them away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave it to James to turn a bunch of boring typos into a crazy word search game. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

These thoughts pester me throughout the long, boring days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Stella’s still asleep and I don’t want to wake her ’cause she said her foot was hurting but I’m really, really”—Ruby pauses for a breath—“really bored.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then gradually, people got bored and the pranks became more half-hearted, until one day it struck me there hadn’t been any for over a week. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The turkey sandwich I made last night sits in front of me, and it suddenly seems boring. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She then rapped three times on the thick black door, which was studded with iron nails and bore a knocker shaped like an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To her satisfaction, Feral’s hands had a hundred ideas of their own, and none of them were boring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His ballpoint pen bore the name of a pharmaceutical company. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She calmly placed her cards on an old carpenter's bench, saying anything that came into her head, while the boy waited beside her, more bored than intrigued. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the left side of the East Door, deep holes several inches in diameter and spaced a foot apart were bored into the rock, beginning near the ground and continuing all the way up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The victim bore its suffering patiently, without showy remonstrations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the buildings at Rock Center, Tuttle’s had a kind of boring tan Art Deco facade. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She seemed as bored as I was with all the polite talk in that parlor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their marches, Hans’s squad bore their new banner proudly. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hallway wound past a boring lounge and a clean kitchen. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“As opposed to all the boring ones I tell.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I insult his manhood, his boring wife, his ugly child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about anyone else, but thirty seconds without bad news and I’m bored. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeds planted in the 1960s, forgotten by so many, sprung up from the ground and bore fruit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It had been an extremely boring plant, but I did remember it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mo had bored me stupid with a million photos of them. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We all passed your boring tests,” said Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Olga didn’t have much on her hard drive, just some boring pictures of her and Angie, and old papers from her Intro to Business class. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m boring you with all my break-ins, but what can I do when burglars take such pleasure in honoring Gies & Co. with their presence? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The one facing him bore a nameplate reading SIRIUS. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to be like the rest of my teachers: bored, jaded, and counting down the seconds until retirement. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she says, “those girls are okay but they’re so normal. It’s boring.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Similar methods were adopted all through the country with other leaders who bore watching. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then like a blinding red flash the message of the lantern bored its way into my brain. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realize you were still so bored with small-town life,” he said conversationally, and I knew he was trying to distract me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They appeared to be engaged in polite conversation, and Nehemia’s guards stood to the side of the dais, already looking bored. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Now he’s talking about dropping out of engineering. Says it’s too boring.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boy looked bored and confused, sitting there in short pants and shiny leather shoes with his mouth hanging slightly open. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You know how Cake, sorry, I mean Keiko, was all into those boring old black-and-white movies? I got her to watch better retro movies, from the eighties.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Zeus gave them a home in a fortunate country where the vineyards and cornlands, unplowed and unsown, bore fruits plenteously. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the sundering leagues of land, far away they gazed to the edge of sight, and hope and fear bore their thoughts still on, beyond dark mountains to the Land of Shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The day felt like any other: boring, uneventful, and annoying. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Long ragged tails streamed behind them like flickering flames, and in place of a lord's sigil they bore the device of a god: the burning heart of the Lord of Light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cersei's green eyes bored into him, wary, yet hungry for the reassurance he was feeding her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The kids in Mama’s class giggle and look at their phones, their bored fingers swiping the screens. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I was thinking if it was such a lovely day, we probably shouldn’t spend it in a boring old museum, but I didn’t say that. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Detention was a bore, he said, and he came back with stories of the regulars, who he called the Detentionheads, and he’d make fun of them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“People say the word ‘nice’ and they mean ‘boring.’ Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know enough about cattle to tell you if he was bored or miserable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He dumped a charge of powder down the bore of the cannon, rammed in a wad of cloth, and set a fuse in the fuse-hole. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

All feats on that great field In the long warfare, Dark days the bright gods willed, Wounds you bore there, Argos' old soldiery On Troy beach teeming, Charmed out of time we see. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I roomed with him for about two whole months, even though he bored me till I was half crazy, just because he was such a terrific whistler, the best I ever heard. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I still loved those old black-and-white movies, even if Audrey said they were boring. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sure there’s Noise in Farbranch, men doing their usual boring daily business, chattering their thoughts that don’t mean nothing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Clark shrugged and clicked her computer some more, seeming bored. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would brand their captives with hot irons and break them to the whip before shipping them off across the sea, and these same black stone walls bore witness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The conversation was so long-winded and boring that I suddenly fell asleep on the cold, hard linoleum. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Like his misguided obsession with those Potomac canals, his campaign for a national university in the capital city never bore fruit. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Everything is great, honey. I went to the supermarket. I shopped for clothes at the mall. I even had a pretzel at the food court. That might sound boring, but it was a wonderful day.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“For those milk paps that through the window bars bore at men’s eyes. . . .” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was boring, and we knew that if we did not learn grammar instead of just phrases, we would never learn English. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes bore into me as I look at Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He asked me to do that too. I think he was bored lying in there with nothing to do.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You can read more of your boring book later.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Chicken, definitely. You can make so many different kinds of chicken. It would never be boring.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her last husband had his ears bored for stealing honey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Their voices blended as one beneath the rising moon, while Ghost listened and the mountains themselves bore witness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I bore a fine son for him, who will be the best knight of the world.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've never liked court much. I was lucky to be at sea with my father most of the time. He's grooming me for a boring life on a boat." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her first months as a wife were peaceful and boring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer helped Booth dismount, offering support when the fugitive’s body weight bore down on his injured leg. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gaze was boring a hole in the wall. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Grumpy teachers. Lots of reading and reciting. Basically boring. How about yours?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It keeps me from getting bored or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She told me last night and again this morning on the bus that she thought our project was boring. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told her I’d stick with my boring brown, thank you very much. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even when I saw the convicts unload the laundry from the boats, it was boring. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They charted the daily round too, in boring, loving detail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He always knew when to say the right thing—the news on the radio was getting pretty boring. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She puts her spoon down and busies herself tightening her ponytail, as if she’s bored with this conversation. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Seems like a boring way to pass an afternoon, but I try it anyway. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"It's boring. Blah, blah, blah—pirates!—blah, blah, blah." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As Euwe continued with his remarks, Bobby appeared bored and lonely, even though more than a thousand people were looking up regularly at him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers bring up Shakespeare only to bore students to death. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Milo bore the tumultuous celebration with benevolent grace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I guess the plan is to bore us to death. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I dusted and swept the floors, I kept thinking of how tired and bored I was working for Santa Maria Window Cleaners day in and day out. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden in de heat uh de day. Somebody done spoke to me ’bout you long time ago. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” said Mrs. Baker from her desk, “teachers do not bring up Shakespeare to bore their students to death.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Nor you me, you squat, filthy bore! Your outfit is ridiculous and your beard is filled with twigs.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to see. They will be bored.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their kite shields all bore the same device: a crystal sword shining in the darkness, the ancient badge of those the small- folk called Swords. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can feel my teammates’ eyes boring holes into me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were unhappy, bored,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt that she ever was bored,” one friend marveled, “she had such interest in everyone and the world about her.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me, his eyes boring a hole in my face as if he were trying to figure out what I was up to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After its uncertain launch, its stolid reliability had become almost boring; the Crocker Lab seemed more like an industrial factory every day, so why not push past the boundaries of the predictable once again? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We gathered around her while the lights of noontime bore down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you remember how it was. If one turned up in a room, everyone pretended to find it dead boring. Then you came back half an hour later and it would always be gone.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Newman is making us work on a business flyer next. I never knew art could be boring.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You bored him to death,” she said, covering Vern’s lap with a colorful afghan. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She watched cartoons with the little kids until golf came on, then played double solitaire with Maisie until they were both bored stupid. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But reckless greed carried them all away to plunder the rich bottomlands; they bore off wives and children, killed what men they found. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a new thought strikes me: What if they are not just bored young men who want an adventure? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We only let him play with us when we were bored and felt like beating somebody. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would also explain why Pong never complained about being hungry, even though monks didn't eat anything after noon, or about being bored, even though a monk’s daily routine is long and mostly uneventful. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It's boring to do that every two minutes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Fourteen people out on the stoops, sitting around because there wasn’t any boring thing else to do in boring Marysville. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm not worried about how I'll stand it. I'm only afraid I may be bored," Cohn said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even handed over their wedding rings, which were replaced with copper bands that bore the national seal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This query bore the unmistakable fingerprints of Arthur Compton, who reigned as the world’s leading expert on cosmic rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

School is boring; none of the classes mean anything to me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind her maids bore a basket full of axeheads, bronze and iron implements for the master’s game. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of it is pretty boring, especially the songs and the poetry parts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Like all the rest, she bore marks of the recent battle: There were grazes on her face and her robes were ripped. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And probably why she was one of Dad’s favorite people, even though she hated the Ramones and thought baseball was boring, while Dad lived for the Ramones and thought baseball was a religious institution. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also had his duties as district mathematician, and he soon remarried, a young woman of 24 who bore him six children, three of whom died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he’d cut to length with a hacksaw. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I listen to music, and I’m bored and antsy and, honestly, miserable. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And when his audience grew bored, he would spring into the air and do a back flip with a half twist. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The soil was dry now, completely out of reach of the water, except perhaps for when a tidal bore—a dangerous surge of water—rose suddenly after a storm and flooded the creek. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is a 60-year-old New York judge and already looks bored with the case. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She soon found that her assignment was anything but boring—for one thing, she had to make a few practice jumps herself before she learned to pack parachutes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Literature and politics, science and religion did not bore him—they simply had no place in his world, and nor did any matter about which people seriously disagreed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was bored and much too warm, but he refused to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing him in his glass prison. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The three lines are organized by urgency, as in, those with sicknesses versus those of us dying today by some unknown force versus bored visitors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All because I don’t act bored, disrespectful in class, or pushy, loud at recess. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I knew if I bore to the right I would find the railroad, and if I bore to the left I had the river to guide me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re so bored, go away and do something else. I don’t care.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And it’s been hard for her to sew during the day like she used to because Lolo gets bored and wants to go for walks, which she insists on taking with him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The narrator, he found upon reading the first sentence, bore his own name— Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy’s familiar presence seemed to give a homelike charm to the foreign scenes in which she bore a part. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the nosiest woman in the world and spent most of her life spying on the boring, law-abiding neighbors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I always looked exactly the same—same clothes, hair, expression, midway between bored and aggrieved. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was standing between the two trees gazing at the blank wall of the cliff, as if he would bore a hole into it with his eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was bored out of my skull in class. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Who is this Father you keep squeaking about?” said Knife in a bored voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You will find, Karen,” Mary Anne said as she watched her mother climb the last stairs, “that poor taste is a lot more fun than good taste. Good taste is real boring.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the guards taking potshots at cats. They always do that when they’re bored.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She bore him a son, Narfi, and shortly afterward another son, Vali. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It should be a lot easier than boring a hole through the hill,” said the bard, “which was my next suggestion.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They complain about being tired from work and from school, but they don’t complain about being bored. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Though I could feel Leafie’s eyes boring a hole in my back, I took his arm and we moved toward the dance floor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

While I liked school, I thought church was boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I put this scheme together, I figured Air Days would be godawful boring. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bore her no malice, this animal, it was indifferent to her misery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We needed the violence to cheer us after a whole day of boring traveling and contemplation about why our superiors had let us go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s an I'm bored in suburbia kind of phrase.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t mind before—” “Leave her, soldier,” a bored, wintery voice says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Axelroot himself is boring to watch; on a typical day he sleeps till noon, then takes a nap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thumb went for the red scuff mark on the back of the ball, trying to rub it out like I always did whenever I got bored. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Your mother who bore you—put your arms around my neck. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A boring place for a mouse, Ralph decided, until he discovered something interesting on a bottom shelf behind a big desk. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I can skip the boring parts.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He seemed to find nearly everything I did boring. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out the side window, and my voice sounded bored. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After lunch I was a little bored and I wandered around the apartment. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Scabbard and hilt bore no ornament; the craftsmanship lay in its proportion and balance. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like he would have divulged all the boring details of this trip to anyone anyway, except maybe June and Nora. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No, change of plans, because guess who’s coming this way? Looking bored? Looking to hang with us?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I realized that I didn't want boring in my life, and that a cape and top hat were so much more interesting than the black-and-white tuxedo every other guy was wearing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know. I would rather fight in the war than eat another bowl of cereal. This is boring.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was bored, but I never stopped being frightened. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to know you felt bored. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Janis had kept an eye on him, of course — she seemed to take it for granted that husbands bore watching. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was cold, in agony, and on the point of death when his sacrifice bore dark fruit: in the ecstasy of his agony he looked down, and the runes were revealed to him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The animals in the other cages gave them bored looks, as if to say, I'd kill you, but it would take too much energy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Within just a few minutes, Magdalys had gone from irritated to disappointed to bored to furious, and now she was sliding quickly toward despair. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Every night she bore witness to what she could never have. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

People’s dreams bore me generally; before this one I have had only a few that I remembered longer than a few seconds after I awoke. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not want to suffer through a long and boring cat-and-mouse question session. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

We were desperately bored; the littles had rented bikes to go on this scenic ride to Oak Bluffs and we had no idea when they’d return. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Once during a long interview with Helen, I turned to the war-dress who was required to sit in on our conversation and said, “I’m sorry to bore you with this endless consultation.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three hours of wine and words, the priests took their leave ... all but the kindly man, the waif, and the one whose face bore the marks of plague. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every year when it bore fruit the neighborhood kids would go and pick berries from it, eating as many as they could and filling up bags to take home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Do thirty of them,” he mumbled in a bored voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was incredibly boring, but my survival depends on these machines, so it had to be done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Camp food is so boring! I couldn’t wait for the packages my mom would send with snacks.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Everyone else just kind of sat there, bored, including Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mother and daughter wrote each other almost daily, and for several months their abundant correspondence took the place of Clara’s notebooks that bore witness to life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At any rate she bore a fine son, who seems to have achieved the Grail.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that the cascading events in France bore any relation to the American Revolution struck Adams as outright lunacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Captain's log. Stardate 9326.5. Hog hunting is incredibly boring. I think I'll take a nap and trust in my brilliant Vulcan companion to let me know if any extremely dangerous feral hogs walk by.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around the boring part where the guy named Rolf and the oldest daughter are singing You are sixteen, going on seventeen, Jack nudged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m starting to get a little bored of them, actually; I want to move to something else.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The God of Fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes of Hera alone, who bore him in retaliation for Zeus’s having brought forth Athena. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked bored as she sucked her teeth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got so tired of telling them the same boring story about being born without arms that I started making stuff up. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We tried playing a few times without the North, but this turned out to be so boring that we abandoned the game altogether. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes were drawn to his face, which bore a terrible, raw-looking scar that reached from his crown to his jaw. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Those flying monkeys were creepy. But other than that, I don’t know, I thought it was kind of boring.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even the constant feeling of terror becomes boring. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was not entirely true, since on her second and third trips to Craig Castle, Jamie had taken her shooting and she had actually bagged not one but two pheasants with Queenie’s 20 bore. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At any rate she was feeling happy, and she bore no grudge against her captor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1953, after sinking a series of experimental bores, university geologists agreed that the site was indeed anomalous and attributed the deformed rocks to some ancient, unspecified volcanic action. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with cliches and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a slat of wood about three inches wide and bored holes in it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The solid, contourless body, like a block of granite, and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to them complain about how boring their upcoming weekend would be because they were going to the community pool again, and then they started talking about a dance class they took together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What my mother bore him was girls, twin girls. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids don’t watch when they are stimulated and look away when they are bored. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Mom. I’ll talk about boring things. I know, how about George? He’s always good for being boring.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh....It’s too long a story. I never bore people I haven’t known for at least a thousand years.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Time finally bore me away from the dangerous bags and I got well. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified Pippin lay still, though the pain at his wrists and ankles was growing, and the stones beneath him were boring into his back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was very, very tired or very, very bored. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She figured this would be the boring part. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I mean, your dog is named David, which is pretty boring.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And who are you to bore these children with mindless activities?” my mother snapped back. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But we wouldn’t settle down and get boring jobs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, of course you will, Mr. Hare. What a bore you must think me. I’ll probably sit around on the common here and teach the rats to make daisy chains.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I cleared my throat, said: “Maybe boring isn’t so bad compared to other stuff that could happen.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I bore ten—no—eleven children. You had three and Katie had two. Among us, we had sixteen children. We ought to know enough to bring a baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me when it’s safe to look,” he said, bored. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It read: “I am very glad that you are free, and that you are back among your friends and family, but your speech yesterday was very boring.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the older children were in summer school until around noon, making the mornings especially boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As I mentioned, it's been a long, boring drive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not supposed to eat any of them. Tell me what you’ve been up to. Gosh, the other girls are boring! They don’t do anything but read love comics and eat chocolates.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It gets boring in Tartarus. You can tell me your story while we eat, eh?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They held their great shields above them like a roof, while in their midst they bore two trunks of mighty trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One week before the Bolshevist Revolution, in the autumn of 1917, his young wife bore him a second child, a son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But after a while, even art could get kind of boring. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a stereo, isn’t it? Why don’t you play some music? Or are you bored with the stereo, too?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shay rolled her eyes, looking at Tally to confirm what a bore this was. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas bore the responsibility anyway—and it was growing heavier the more he thought about it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even complain to Mom because she’d tell me to use my imagination, or say that being bored was good for me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It must get awfully boring sitting there, watching cakes bake.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Which shouldn’t be hard, since all his words are boring. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was so relieved at having escaped the Doldrums that he assured the dog that he bore him no ill will and, in fact, was very grateful for the assistance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I resent that the hours seem boring now, emptier. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then men fell back before the command of his voice and questioned him no further, though they gazed in wonder at the hobbit that sat before him and at the horse that bore him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was super boring compared to taste-testing cupcakes, but I didn’t mind too much. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at the orange marmalade,” I say in a bored voice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With other kids she usually put on her Hollywood act, terribly grown-up and bored with everything. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to be bored by the questioning. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"No. But a man gets bored wearing the same colors day in and day out, or so I've found." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dara Lynn’s got the devil in her tonight—little bit bored with summer, but not quite ready for school to start. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city of Cleveland was safe and bored, and eager for a sensation a bit closer to home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After we walked around for a while, everything seemed kind of sad and boring so we couldn’t tell anymore what we wanted. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked with one of them, and she was bored with yachts and bored with flying around in airplanes and bored with skiing in Switzerland at Christmas and bored with the men in Brazil. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

How I got over it: It was too boring to care about for long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When one is with her it is impossible to be bored. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not having many people to interact with or much to do was making him feel lonely and bored. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought how convenient it would be now I didn't have to announce to everybody at college I had broken off with Buddy and start the boring business of blind dates all over again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--and one day I found what it was. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I go on, figuring the faster we get to the boring stuff the better for all concerned. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the hills on either side the rock was bored into a hundred caves and maggot-holes; there a host of orcs lurked, ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s just a boring stone well in the middle of the floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He removed the spark plugs and scraped the points and bored the carbon out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Young people often find the country a bore,” said Julian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And he was. pleased when his second son’s wife bore also in her season, and she gave birth to a girl first as was fitting and it was seemly out of respect to her sister-in-law. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

You waited and waited and waited and then...Summer vacation turned out to be boring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Shields they bore as well, but so obscured by snow and ice that the arms upon them could not be read. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sighed and plopped down on the first step, worried we’d made our way into another dead-end, boring, waste of time, dusty mudhole of a town, with another move not too far off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I horse around quite a lot, just to keep from getting bored. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Which I guess was interrupting, because he and Calista were looking at some boring art book he’d brought in to show her, but I didn’t care. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mom could pack our whole Saturday with boring “cultural events,” I asked if I could do homework at Calaca. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was lonely and boring work, even with Ghost along for company, but Jon found he did not mind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was copying the superior, bored expressions of the high school girls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She looked up from her book, raised a slow, bored hand, and tucked her red hair behind her ear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The analogy didn’t hold in any way that bore close scrutiny. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Tacky, cheap, and boring. Honestly, Ephialtes. You have no sense of style.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And yet so, paradoxically, did her left, her fiance’s gaze boring through her thin silk shade like a second solar power. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had left her bodyguard behind—the Queen’s knights, who all bore the vergescu as their badge of office— and had taken with her only ten knights in civilian clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a litde bored, even though my mind and body are on alert. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Despite the boring title, it’s pretty cool to learn about the non-human cities out there. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The kid had droopy eyes and a long face—for some reason he looked as bored as humanly possible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And people do, because the story is boring. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

You’re so excited to be away from your mistakes that your boring little sister doesn’t matter anymore. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His special distinction as a speaker was not to deliver the full- bore, self-consciously Greco-Roman ornamentation of his predecessors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The letter bore, alas, Horatio’s news of the death of Hamlet and the ruin of all Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The trip back to Houston was kind of boring, but it was nice to get there and see our friends and families. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I never found boredom very boring. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Rariden had taken my previous statement, he had seemed bored and weary. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a card featuring a drawing of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway that resulted in the player losing two turns as you read the book and are bored to death. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t do anything except listen to these boring country songs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Was this the face of a child who bored an old man or an idiot who jumped to conclusions? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The light was a candle which the boy bore in a ringstick of beaten copper. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Four of them were standing in the corridors, looking bored. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Staring at the wall can get a bit boring after a while,” she says, handing everything off to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had got bored and had almost finished ironing my shirt when suddenly I heard Francis’s voice rise, with a hysterical edge. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Oh, we knew how to make boards well enough. It wasn't until your time that we learned how to make an audience bored." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” I added, “it had been a long time since she’d had anything to say to me, and she was bored all by herself.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Shame creeps up from the back of my neck into my face as Sheila’s eyes bore into me, as she waits for me to say something. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He then lifts his arm nonchalantly, a bored wave it seems, and returns the Hitler salute. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before bebop, the solos bore some resemblance - at least as they began - to the song’s original melody and they also adhered to its key-family and chordal logic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But not only did I decide to get up, I decided to get the hell out of that empty, boring, beige hospital room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mother was mum, bored and neutral on the subject. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how he could make even bloody and vicious goblin riots sound as boring as Percy’s cauldron-bottom report. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His voice seemed to bore its way through the pillow and ring in my ears. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus vindicating those who bore influence in her formative years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bore on south in the days and weeks to follow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I think Bella from Twilight is too fickle, and I don’t understand why she would choose that boring Edward. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Capricorn only toyed with the belt of his dressing gown, looking bored. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Paula rustled around in her box as if looking for a way out of her boring cardboard prison. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m helping a friend. It’s for history. It’s boring.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A woman sings nicely for a time, about “a great tomorrow,” and is encouraging us to “sign up with Outer Space Ways Incorporated” if we “find Earth boring.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bore the boy easily enough/ though he looked none too happy with the task. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Job bore them witness, and Abraham was their father, Moses had elected to suffer with them rather than glory in sin for a season. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It sure was boring. Who did most of the talking anyway?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nately stared at her covertly from his over-stuffed yellow armchair, marveling at the bored, phlegmatic strength with which she accepted the mass rejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s not much to do, except they give us tests and make us do exercises and then they measure us and take our temperature and stuff. It’s just boring really.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If you think shelling peas is boring work, you ought to try removing the inner linings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I got bored, I called up old friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My mother was a good woman until she met King Arthur. She had a happy home with Lot of Orkney, and she bore him four brave sons. What happened after?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led into an even longer argument—hard to follow and, to me, intensely boring—about whether Hesiod’s primordial Chaos was simply empty space or chaos in the modern sense of the word. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kimril was easy to grow, nourishing though nearly flavorless, and was now the staple of their boring diet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The few skeletons belonging to mature males bore the worst marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi tuned out his sisters’ phenomenally boring conversation, added a chunk of crumbly brown sugar to his watered-down hot milk, and stirred. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In five years, to the incessant sound of trees being clubbed to death, she bore four children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You two are so boring. We don’t have fun anymore,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He always closes his eyes and smiles when we reach the last lines of the passage, Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was hard work, and soon the animals got bored. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them bore scars on their necks, wrists, and ankles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, she’s not boring, I’ll give you that. Hot in her own way. I can see it. So, what do you guys do?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I dunno. I was bored. I went by your barn, but I didn’t see you. Just that little house-thing you built.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After seeing other tycoons grow bored with their lavish art collections and swanky mansions, Fabyan had invested his own millions in a private brain trust. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then with a bit he bored a hole lengthwise through the square part, and with his knife he whittled the wood till it was only a thin shell around the round hole. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to give myself something to do, in order not to be too bored and find myself among all the wretched unsaved of the Avenue. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how I spent two hours, it was so awful and boring. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunderson continued to look down, boring a hole in the table beneath him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They moved around her like ghosts, gliding soundlessly through the rooms, almost always bored and empty- handed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The front door of the Riddle House bore no sign of being forced, nor did any of the windows. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Well," she said, "at least we shall not be bored. But we had better leave your mother a note." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kids play card games on the floor and eat potato chips until they get bored. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, I was bored by lunchtime. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It should, perhaps, but it doesn’t. People are bloodthirsty. It’s the nature of simple folk. Blood excites them, and they love to be excited. It takes them out of their boring lives.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t he say “I love you”? Wednesday was boring. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This, of course, had always been the fear—that some drunk, some group of high-school or college kids would be bored and use the plane as a temporary distraction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

While they were talking, I got bored and began to do some more flips into the foam pit. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Stubborn and bored with each other, they fell silent. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He bore her away weeping, down to the underworld. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know how corny this sounds, but I could kiss her all day and never get bored. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was still bored, and her mother wasn’t yet home. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Bereft of players and properties, it bore no resemblance to a castle in Denmark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The program began, with the current mayor telling a very long and very boring story about her grandmother’s bravery and ingenuity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The food’s boring. There’s no music. We’ve invented eight thousand games and outgrown them all, some of them literally. Why not grow into something?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Call me boring, but I didn’t want to play. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I kept our bio conversations as brief and boring as possible. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m kind of a boring guy when you think about it. Don’t know what Dante sees.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

That way, when boring Hobbits like Fatty Bolger said things, it didn’t matter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As a perverse and incredibly boring experiment, I am now trying to prove that I can get by without the drugs and the drinking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He works in the most boring department,” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was tired of fishing, and bored with retirement, when he set out to learn to read and write. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each one of the Gran’s proclamations, while everyone else cheered loudly, they barely clapped, as if this was the most boring event in the world. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But all I was thinking was that things must be really boring in the city.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s my newest story. I was born like this. The truth is totally boring so I make up stories for fun. I have lots of them if you’d like to hear.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We parade down the aisle so Mom can wave at all her friends and then we sit through a boring sermon I’m not allowed to fidget through. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t think like we do. Doesn’t get happy or sad or angry or bored. He’s like a robot. Hugo just obeys commands.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Sander bore with me and the infinite variations I employed in saying my lines, and my inability to say the name Pedringano properly, until he could bear it no longer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moving as if animated with destructive desire, it gurgled down the backstretch, banked around the far turn, bore out in the homestretch, and mowed down the entire grandstand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam sent Lee with a note to the Hamilton place to ask Samuel to visit him and discuss the boring of some wells on his new place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regret washed over her as she could feel Mama’s gaze boring into her from back where she waited by the trolley stop. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The shot that Travis Burdow fired over Rob Nelson’s team that night was a shot fired at a society that had kicked a boy from childhood on because he bore his grandfather’s name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them bore the name of George A. Custer, the commanding officer of the U.S. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

At one point in class, she’s so bored that she takes it out of her mouth and starts playing with it between her fingers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I get a double scoop of pistachio, and Hana gets her boring chocolate chip, and Daddy gets cake batter with cookie pieces crumbled in it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually bored, he climbed down and wandered into the foliage. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was not allowed to read newspapers, and he was bored by the magazines Mrs. Meier lent him: old issues of Good Housekeeping and McCall’s. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think our evenings are boring, Matty? I thought you enjoyed our reading together.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was stranded on Ludus, the most boring planet in the entire OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I answered dumbly, trying to look too boring to be worth staying for. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d just been touching the anchor and bore no trace of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Being smart didn’t mean he had to be boring. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t friendly, or angry, or curious, or even bored. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces that Chandresh became bored with at one point or another and were adopted into this purgatory instead of being discarded entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It was summer. We were bored. I don’t know. It’s stupid.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The black horses were filled with madness, and leaping forward in terror they bore their riders into the rushing flood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I complain that I’m bored, Dad gives me a paintbrush and sits me down so I can “help.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His face bore little resemblance to the one on the Wall of Fame, with little webbed feet around a pair of eyes that looked like brittle coals. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an activity that never failed to cheer her up, even though it bored Oliver to no end. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But music that follows the same rhythmic pattern all the time can get pretty boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

First Ira herself, then the long, long interval and after that almost every passing year I bore a son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the harvest was in, Luke thought Dad might be bored without the pigs to take care of. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would become annoyed and impatient when Kamaswami bored him with his worries. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I have a proposal for you both,” I said, and then turned so that Fig’s wide-eyed stare bored into Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Go to the library like I told her. And once I'm there, she'll get bored and leave." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph resented being imprisoned by a zipper, and the conversation was boring because it was not about him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Chokecherry’s too boring for a big thing—even a bad big thing.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

By the evening of February 17, 1893, as a blizzard bore down on Chicago, Olmsted was under a doctor’s care, confined to his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He’ll be behind the counter, bored and dreamy and adorably disheveled. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His cheek still bore the red mark of the hand. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you listen? Cain bore the mark not to destroy him but to save him. And there’s a curse called down on any man who shall kill him. It was a preserving mark.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held out his hand—the one that bore his ring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But that was not until much later, and Clara never knew about it, so she could not write it in her notebooks that bore witness to life, for me to read one day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You gotta chat about something or be bored out of your skin, so we pretty much talked about everything. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Reyna’s eyes bored into him—like the eyes of a hungry wolf. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

David, Daniel, Sammy, and I just sat around doing nothing, which was about as boring as it sounds. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If she catches me looking bored, she grabs a book and shoves it in my face and says I have to read twenty pages, and then if I want to stop, I can. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

John had gotten bored with Bobo and moved down to the next cage that had a gorilla. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a boring job, and your hands get tired. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other evidence, however, is necessary, for it is known that Michelangelo did not carve all the marble blocks which were quarried for him and which bore his mark. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how crazy or boring the funeral was, it didn’t matter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tendai didn’t know how much you could say about such boring animals until the men got going. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That summer he was twenty-one and he was bored in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she gets bored here during the day, alone with her grandparents, who talk too loudly and smell like cabbage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bored guards on duty outside their door had several visitors that afternoon. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Swallowing their disappointment, they bore away from the dangerous coast to wait out the night. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Luna focused, the keenness of her eye boring inward, piercing the shine of the pearl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

An army of servants clad in bright blue livery for the new king bore jugs of posset and poured spiced wine in pewter goblets stamped with the seal of Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was no radio in the trailer, and the only reading material was a construction industry journal with boring articles about hurricane-resistant roof sheathing and antitermite treatments for plywood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the place where you grow up is always really boring,” she replies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Riccio looked around for their pursuer but all he could see were bored faces staring into shop windows and a bunch of giggling schoolchildren. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paying attention to the guards who seem a little bored. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“But that don’t mean it have to sound boring,” Minny says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan wasn’t sure if Uncle Jet set it up for acting so terribly toward them, or if he was so bored that he had nothing better to do. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before, when Abilene talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The gash in his forehead gave him no more trouble, but he bore a brown scar to the end of his days. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“My mom calls once a month to tell us how happy she is to be away from boring old Illinois. For my birthday, she sent me ten bucks.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

What if he was getting bored of me? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If Matt thought he’d been bored before, it was nothing compared to writing the same letters, coloring the same pictures, and counting the same wretched beads and flowers all over again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sometimes worked at superstores and giant chains where bored teenaged employees barely paid attention. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy's hand hovered over a button, and his lips bore a cheeky Mona Lisa smile, as if he were hoarding all the secrets of the universe and would never share. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Gogol is bored by the panelists, who keep referring to something called “marginality,” as if it were some sort of medical condition. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

That was why it was such an awful bore to haul him around. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At a tortilla factory, where my job would be to load dough balls onto a conveyor belt, the “interview” is completed by a bored secretary without so much as a “Hi, how are you?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had stayed in the back of the auditorium, like he was bored. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A month later, when another palm tree in camp bore ripe fruit, David again visited us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I still say on is no," the bored track star said. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako could feel his eyes boring into her toes—her feet actually seemed to almost warm up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise the driving gets so boring,” she said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I organized the construction of a litter out of branches, and we bore the great warrior home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would talk to her husband, yes, but he was dying, and she was the one who now managed the store and bore its responsibilities, and she had come to a decision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I’m bored of that, I examine myself in the mirror, and the harsh light lets me see every pore on my face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Thought briefly of all the pleasant, boring things I might’ve been doing with my summer, had my life gone differently. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It is as Valerian says. This lesson is boring. You will light the lamps and begin another, more worthy one.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But even though I draw the same things over and over again, I never get bored with my art. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Even after receiving the “right hand of fellowship,” Sunday school bored me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vivi used to go with us, but then she became bored and didn’t bother. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But now, in Dubai and after that, we sit together and my pantry is full of memories about every boring detail. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Because you’re not going to think about me when you see a boring old gift card on your desk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I said, “I’m going to do that when I get real old and boring.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s okay. I can’t think of anything good anyway. This town is just too boring.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The coast guard banned fishing on the west side of the island and bore down on gill-netters in the middle of the night who had set nets near restricted areas. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We never got bored when we were with each other. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Frank’s family history didn’t seem so boring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the fire bore down on them, they unloaded dynamite from the automobiles, packed it into Howard’s dealership and the surrounding buildings, and blew it all sky-high to widen the firebreak. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As innocuous and boring as that—the name of the road we live on. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I don’t know what he actually does, but it all sounds complicated and boring. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"For the love I bore your lord husband, let me avenge his death." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the warm, open field feeling hot, dirty, and bored. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tone of his words fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bored expression suggested the questionable value of my mental real estate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, that sounds boring. Also impossible. Like, how are we all going to get there? The guards won’t let us walk that way after dinner; it’s straight back to our blocks, remember?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jem, Dill, and she would have been bored stiff had not Reverend Moorehead possessed a singular talent for fascinating children. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Proserpine was willing to do Venus a service, and Psyche, greatly encouraged, bore back the box, returning far more quickly than she had gone down. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the one who had suggested, “If you boys are bored, play a board game!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

To his slight annoyance, however, neither Ron nor Hermione seemed quite as curious about Malfoy’s activities as he was; or at least, they seemed to get bored of discussing it after a few days. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But even as Sergeant Brown spoke the radar screen no longer bore witness to the presence or the existence of Bull Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name it bore was older still, a legacy from the age of heroes, when the Starks were Kings in the. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his leg become less firm where she had touched him, and he pushed back against her, but she threw her arms around him and bore him toward the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

More often than not the sacks bore the name of the farm where the corn had been grown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What?” said a bored voice from inside a hard plastic carrier sitting on the floor between Jenny’s and Abby’s seats. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The more he browsed the University of Chicago catalogue online, the more classes he saw that he’d like to take, and the more boring his routinized office job seemed by comparison. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when the adults had a boring discussion about what was wrong with the world these days, Rafik wished they’d be quiet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I began to risk climbing trees to escape the wild dogs that quickly got bored and moved on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sounds bored, but he doesn’t look bored. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was a legitimate hero who bored every one he met. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Turned out the only water in Calm Waters was a single muddy pond, and it wasn’t so much calm as it was boring. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His gallery is divided into 5 folders—bored, curious, angry, hurt, peaceful—and each has multiple black-and-white photos. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nestled in all that boring gray was a single golden feather, which he extended to them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I got bored and looked around for alternative entertainment. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Granny bore the standard for God, but she was always fighting. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ajarry bore five children by those men, each delivered in the same spot on the planks of the cabin, which she pointed to when they misstepped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This time when I entered the Archives, there was a young gentleman sitting behind the desk, tapping a pen on a piece of paper that bore the marks of much rewriting and crossing out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lean in for her next words, for The Message from Upstairs, but then Dad interrupts, throwing a whole load of boring on the moment. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His hand, trembling with his effort at self control, bore to his lips the last of his glass of ale. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Actually, some of the announcements are quite cool, even if the designs are boring. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...sorry, Hermione.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Adults wouldn’t bother me, only bored children who might be exploring. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I think having a blueprint makes life boring. Maybe I don’t want to get married or have kids or any of that. Maybe I just want a career and that’s all.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wore suspenders over his white shirt and, even without long sideburns, bore a remarkable resemblance to Ichabod Crane of the Sleepy Hollow legend. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then Aragorn laid his hand gently to the sapling, and lo! it seemed to hold only lightly to the earth, and it was removed without hurt; and Aragorn bore it back to the Citadel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“May it be your offering to the Mother who bore us all. Drink, and let Her bless you, and replenish your strength.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"He's got this Jewish superiority so strong that he thinks the only emotion he'll get out of the fight will be being bored." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I once owned a book designed to provoke the imagination and help bored children discover constructive ways to pass the time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kermit was bored from being in bed all day, so the minute I got home from school, he started hollering for me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, my father was able to buy a fine house in the village of Llandaff, just outside Cardiff, and there his wife Marie bore him two children, a girl and a boy. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's all right," Bill said, "so long as you weren't bored." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He seems bored with his friends and with us, too. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the museum got boring, Sapo and I would leave, cross the street, and spend the rest of the afternoon in Central Park. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Art history is boring to those of us with normal brains,” Oliver chimed in. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I got so bored and lonely when I was sick. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He would often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet the novel’s boring, but it would be fun to have a computer.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I should have known better, but I was bored and I think maybe the cold weather was making my brain slow, so I said, “What’s that?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the patrons favored the Domishmen with looks bored or hostile or curious. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blatch said, “The suffrage movement...bored its adherents and repelled its opponents.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you’d wake up soon. You can’t imagine how boring it is to sit and watch somebody sleep. It’s like counting stones in a wall.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She kept saying that till I got bored as hell, and I said to her, "Why don't you go on over and give him a big soul kiss, if you know him? He'll enjoy it." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then he talked about other things, like financial goals and fund-raising, and stuff that was so boring I couldn’t wait for him to stop. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Music that contains no dissonances can tend to seem simplistic or boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If he kept repeating, “She felt guilty, she felt guilty, she felt guilty,” it would be a boring book and no one would buy it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You came, you really came,” Clancy said in a bored, flat voice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A knock at the door was both exciting and boring, depending on how you looked at it: The knock always held a mystery. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d been exerting myself at full bore for the past three hours, and I expected to be at it for at least an hour more before taking a rest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Salim was laughing and nudging Kat so I deduced that he was not bored, although I would have been. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fine, but it was kind of boring. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I got bored and Twig kept failing to earn her badges. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘Do you remember aught of special mark that the Lord Boromir bore with him among his gear?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This officer, given maximum power, bore minimum responsibility. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the girls seemed to think it was boring enough too, and they went right back to talking about themselves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The decision bore the hallmarks of his overarching ambition: a top-down approach, beginning with the most complex and variant traits conceivable—intelligence, temperament, physical prowess, height. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Honey,” Paige said, “it would take a lot more than God and Virgil Hedgepath to get me to one of those godawful boring teas where those dumb wives sit around counting each other’s wrinkles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one seemed bored or disinterested in what she had to say. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Keep it,” he said, his gaze boring into hers like he’d seen Shah Rukh Khan do to a dozen different actresses in a dozen different Bollywood movies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, send him about his business when he bores you, Edna,” instructed her husband as he prepared to leave. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t hug and say, “I love you,” like on TV shows about boring white families who live in two-story houses and talk about their feelings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I assume it’s boring grown-ups’ business and go back to reading the newspaper on the living room floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Monotonous to the extreme, DNA seemed to be quite the opposite of Schrödinger’s imagined chemical—not just a stupid molecule but worse: a boring one. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a certain stretch on the P. L. M. between Fontainebleau and Montereau that always made me feel bored and dead and dull until it was over. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was bored, and besides, I had been gone all night. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I wish it had been a boring entrance. I’d even take a different badge if I could.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Joon immediately gets bored and begins to unravel the edge of the rug. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a long article, and the kids were bored to death. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t dislike math, but is there anything more boring than math homework? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s been a few weeks now, and I’m still bored stiff. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"But I,” Dad announced, "am bored stiff. Now if Anne had seen a two-headed boy in history class, that would have been of general interest.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would awaken as healthy as she was now but without the encumbrance she bore within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Don’t mention anything about Abroad while you’re here unless you want the pants bored off you. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on the couch and covered his eyes with his arm, trying to imagine himself giving a report on all this boring stuff. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. I suppose. I’d still like a little more screaming. This slow death is boring. Ah, well, what about our talented friend? Is she ready to receive her visitor?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He turned back with a handsome crested helmet in one hand, in the other an old shield coated with dust—a shield Laertes bore soldiering in his youth. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew before it was over I would probably go bored out of my gourd. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she monitored our moods and bore benevolent witness to whatever travails or triumphs a day might bring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I could put on an interesting outfit, crack a joke, and talk about sodium content in kids’ meals without being totally boring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Duh. This looks bubbly. Just because I’m pretty doesn’t mean I’m totally boring.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not much, it seemed to him, except be bored to death for his country. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand he bore a single arrow, black-feathered and barbed with steel, but the point was painted red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But Dorian, tall, toned, and elegant, bore no resemblance to him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Fina to think that being one color is boring. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The a-helix, even if correct, had not provided any biological insights; he seemed bored speaking about it. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A bored dog barked a garden or two away. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We thought they were boring then, a form of adult gossip that did not concern us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at a desk covered in typed papers that looked important and boring. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I heard it was boring,” Milo said, frowning. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he declined to do so, the immigrants gathered together, several hundred in number, and bore down on the black workers, pummeling them right off the dock. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bridge does not come easily to a mind brought up on Snap and Happy Families; besides, it bored her friends to play with me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The messenger, bored and scratching at an insect bite on his neck, came to Kira in the dawn and told her that she must report to the Council of Guardians at late morning. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding two pieces of pottery: one a plain, boring blue-gray bowl, and the other an amazing blue-gray bowl with random cracks that were filled with shimmering gold. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the sandbox corner, looking bored, with his head propped in a baseball glove, was a boy in a faded red T-shirt. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They came because they were bored, and the dragon on my shoulder interested them more than I did. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the end, they got bored with this game. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m out, too. If you softhearted cupcakes are going to stroll through Venice without even whacking those furry animals on the head, forget it. I don’t like boring expeditions.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Three at a time, the armored giants bore down on Boots and Brute. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

That cold stare behind his glasses seemed to bore a hole through my chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The captain talked as if he were bored; it was all a formality, something he had done too many times and could do in his sleep. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The lovely November sunshine crept into the classroom, shining warmly upon the beautifully written but boring English words on the blackboard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch white people on the TV screen for a while, but even the movies with guns and fast cars and explosions get boring after a while. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Apparently, they just sit around watching really boring documentaries that only geniuses would find entertaining. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He kept jerking his front paw, which was jammed deep in the hole I had bored. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bore him high and they bore him proudly and there was an angry sadness in their eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cod, whiting, haddock and mackerel, we caught them all and bore them back triumphantly to the hotel kitchen where the cheery fat woman who did the cooking promised to get them ready for our supper. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monte Carlo had begun to bore her, and this little illness would make a distraction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It kept him from getting bored on the trip; it kept him alert. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Vetch, watching, the light he bore seemed like a great slow star that moved through the darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure. Boys only want one thing, Dad. And that’s just boring.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a movie with some friends. You know this town is boring you to death already,” Lucas joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was hot, so I don’t really blame them, but it was still boring. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She did her best to look indifferent and bored. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He asked her if she was happy, and she answered that no, he was the most boring, tedious snooze of a date she had ever met. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She never even considered the possibility that he wanted her to be bored. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Egyptian men and women milled about, some just sitting at their stalls, seeming awfully bored of it all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This hallway is mainly 8th grade, but it also has the music rooms. We have band, orchestra, and chorus. Would you like to see the music rooms?” the secretary asks, sounding bored. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them on the sunroof, yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans, and they seemed bored as hell. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even if it was something as boring as gardening. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is so dull today,” Cardan says, but he doesn’t sound as if he’s bored. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Thrice shall pay for all, if you are willing. You will not find me a burden much greater than when you bore me from Zirakzigil, where my old life burned away.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could be a monk, but church is more boring than watching the screen-test card. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen all there is to see, and I’m bored, Mom. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Brinker Hadley could compose his Shortest War Poem Ever Written The War Is a bore if he wanted to, but all of us had to take stronger action than that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person before us bore no resemblance whatsoever to Miss Peregrine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the other children in the class, already bored with the project, begin chasing one another around the stones, pushing and teasing and snapping gum. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ran into him Tuesday downtown at the P&S Drugstore, where he was slouched against the front wall looking bored and smoking filterless Viceroys. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could picture the bored look on his pale splotchy face. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The problem was that math seemed so boring; his brain never needed urging when it came to reading or writing. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later his family had a headstone put in place that bore this warning verse: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We went inside to play Monopoly, which I personally think is boring but Howard likes it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Even though it would be boring? And predictable?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m usually up for an adventure, and I’m bored, too, but the idea of being all wet and cold is not at all enticing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It bore no resemblance to the Christopher Columbus I remembered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Most Belles are incredibly boring. Like the last one. What was her name again?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He filled the gas-tank at the Amoco, and asked the bored woman at the cash register where the best bar in the area was—somewhere that he could get something to eat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In fear these women bore the cold weight of the dead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came to our house when they were hungry and left when they were bored. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny said he always talked like it was just a long, tiring, boring time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And to prove to Yossarian that they bore him no animosity, they even assigned him to fly lead bombardier with McWatt in the first formation when they went back to Bologna the next day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then—remember?—the train whistle and the boring light and a freight from King City would go stomping across Castroville Street and into Salinas and you could hear it sighing at the station. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would not have gone further with her, but he would have kept encouraging her attention, until he was bored. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Gregor had been eight and had missed nothing; like, the frantic calls to the police, who had acted almost bored with the fact that his dad had vanished into thin air. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No two following acts were the same, lest the crowd grow bored. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep, and when I woke up, Lynn was slumping in her chair looking bored. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a boring romance novel,” Tyler said. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then little by little it dawned on me that the eyes that seemed to bore into my body were in fact gazing through it, wearily indifferent to my slight obstruction of the darkness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they looked at all bored, if either one sneezed or started fidgeting, it would do nothing for Barack’s cause. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We went to a concert this evening, but I got bored and we left in the middle. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” says Gabriel, his ancient eyes boring into me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was not bored; he had no desire for conversation or distraction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually, after a few months or so, I got bored enough with the sneaking about to jump the barrier fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"The least boring Batman story ever, huh? Does Batman raise both eyebrows?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The worst bore down upon the Irish in the 1840s, when the potato crop, their food of life, rotted in the ground for four years running, and landlords heartlessly threw their tenants into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her job bored her: she did the same bland things, writing press releases, editing press releases, copyediting press releases, her movements rote and numbing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Marge’s voice seemed to be boring into him like one of Uncle Vernon’s drills. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The little ship, like most traders of the Inmost Sea, bore the high fore-and-aft sail that can be turned to catch a headwind, and her master was a handy seaman, proud of his skill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the fence with its fading streamers, the land bore no sign that the pancake-house people had ever been there. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a deep breath and lets it out like he’s bored. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She could see the trepidation even on Basta’s face, although he was doing his best to hide it by assuming a particularly bored expression. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Crying farewell, the Elves of Lórien with long grey poles thrust them out into the flowing stream, and the rippling waters bore them slowly away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I got why she’d spent so many years charming boring men. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And when we really got bored we compared our bug bites and scars, probably just to remember we had been down in Alabama. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“No,” she told him, showing her armband that bore the seal of scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For more than a year I had waited at home, bored and depressed by all the news of fighting, and by the struggles at Mom’s and Dad’s work units. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each coffin, Lyra was interested to see, a brass plaque bore a picture of a different being: this one a basilisk, this a serpent, this a monkey. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s not getting driven by her mom to special classes, and there aren’t books lying around her house that she can read if she gets bored. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was drilling, or like, cutting or boring. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had worn a place for himself in some comer of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major had three strikes on him from the beginning— his mother, his father and Henry Fonda, to whom he bore a sickly resemblance almost from the moment of his birth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bored looking woman marked my name and I drew a tile out of the black velvet bag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His attitude, too, bore no shadow of the suffering of the city at large. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But the accounts of old cricket matches are inclined to be boring for those who did not actually play in them, so we must leave it unreported. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

With a thrust of his huge hide shield he turned Boromir’s sword and bore him backwards, throwing him to the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Upon their shields they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an S-rune, wrought of some white metal. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"No, they probably consider me too boring even for that," she said. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Along one wall, fur coats hung, empty and bored. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Matt was bored because he seemed to be doing the same thing over and over. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could have Cordelia and me in here, in our bat-wing sleeves and cinch belts, stuffed and mounted or made of wax, drinking our milkshakes, looking as bored as we could. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie looks bored with her head tilted to the side, eyeing boys passing by. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Normally, I would have been bored, but I knew I wasn’t going to be in Greenwood much longer, so I didn’t mind spending time with Grampa. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s clear to me: no matter how boring I find Mama’s cooking club, I’ll try to win over that girl Elizabeth and make sure the club is a success. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It looked fresh and bore the name Stephen—the n extra small and right at the edge because the carver hadn’t estimated well how much room he’d need. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You know, if you get bored you could always write a book, like Vondie’s mom did. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Football had started to feel boring and routine. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby begrudgingly met the weight lifters and Olympians he was introduced to, but he seemed bored by it all. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, Foxface died almost a day ago, so there's been plenty of time for the audience to place bets and get bored. I guess it could happen at any moment," says Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Commanding the route south was a pillbox and standing by it, with only one rifle between them, was a handful of bored Home Guards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His own life is so boring when measured against his daydreams that he can’t stand it, so he makes up things to pretend it’s exciting. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he controlled himself, and bore it quietly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day in school, there’s a kind of charged feeling, and it seems to make the work less boring and the teachers funnier. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He held him back and bade him take courage, for he had found favor with one who was indeed a god—Dionysus, whom Semele bore in union with Zeus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla—who was rarely content to sit still but was always itching to do something, anything, play cards, go for a picnic or a drive—was bored and restless, and made no secret of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually Mom stopped chatting and switched on some boring talk radio station for the rest of the hour drive home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The wife of the eldest son was faithful and she conceived and bore and conceived and bore regularly and faithfully, and each child as it was born had its slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Have I become one of those bores who talk too much about their children?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I bore the splendid title ‘Captain of Fives’, and I would travel with my team to other schools like Shrewsbury and Uppingham to play matches. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a while that gets boring, so when the cops arrive like this it breaks the day up nice. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch and watch and when the dust settles, I see that three massive pairs of eyes are boring into me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Megan looked irritated, even bored, her eyes sometimes wandering from the proceedings. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I bet she has a backup charger,” Natalie said, sounding more bored than ever. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But it would be boring to go through all the tedious details of all the changes in their lives. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“He put his name down for three dances, and I suppose he’s coming for them. What a bore!” said Meg, assuming a languid air which amused Laurie immensely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each branch was neatly outlined, and some still bore their leaves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Because Ollie might be pedantic and boring, but he could never be a Nazi. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Half the skeletons, including those of children and babies, bore clear signs of damage by human weapons such as clubs and knives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was bored and tired of picking on my knees, so I stood up to stretch. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And I can’t explain why, but after all the weirdness today, seeing all this normal, boring stuff was sort of comforting. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Half of it was boring, the other half horrible. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Stacy ignores us and starts talking about how boring her computer elective is, and then everyone starts talking about their electives and how fun or awful they are. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

For now, he hated the one who had created the situation, the one who bore witness to his failure, his impotence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so bored I wished the telephone would ring with Miss Volker calling to tell me Mr. Spizz had dropped over dead and I had to come down and write one last obituary. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some attach their eggs to a caterpillar by means of a sticky solution; on hatching, the larval parasite bores through the skin of the host. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I'm not joking. That's what he said,” she said, sounding bored, not playful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten how recently her news had bored him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am at my best friend's house, and am pretty bummed, because things are boring now. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since our cottage was at the village fringe, the priest and I bore her remains along the narrow, rutted road that led to the cemetery. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a lot of very polite and very boring questions and answers about Amish life one of the Amish girls led us the rest of the way down the hall into a huge kitchen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hardwick's Honors English class is one boring required read after another. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“A couple of months and we’ll be stuck inside the river. Pretty and boring.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was bored, so it again confused me that she would pick this place, since Margo always struck me as a person with a very limited tolerance for boredom. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The golden monkey stepped away from Pantalaimon as if he were suddenly bored. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was delighted that his daughter, so bored and in such bad health, should have managed to land the most sought-after bachelor in the area. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he’s more a collector than anything else, loving the pursuit too much, easily bored. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take bus rides whenever Lloyd wins some ends, or if either one of us gets some money or we just get bored. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of anger swept through him like a tidal bore. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t bore to death, either, like the dull primers they were used to at school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m guessing you don’t want the word boring written across your back in white letters.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The prison warden reported that the three young people bore themselves with marvelous bravery. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any of us; but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s my icebox, and I want some holes bored in the door,” said Mr. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He handed Amaka a piece of paper and told her he had written some suitably boring names on it, that she had only to choose one and he would leave. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a time the vermin evidently became bored and flew away; for hours at a stretch the sky above his head was empty and, but for the larks, silent. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor and the Company man made long, boring speeches about this great day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“What?” she said, looking up at the young man, his hair disheveled and in his eyes, his skin tan and his expression bored. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His bored tone implied that he was in the habit of talking to his fordship every day of the week. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because she wanted to take dance classes, or be a part of their group, or go to the community pool so regularly it became boring. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The only curse that woman bore was her own ignorance,” Miss Sadie huffed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Any more classes as boring as this one and I’ll be ready to move back in there full-time. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The bored birds let her get within inches of them before they lifted their wings and took off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I tasted and smelled the acridness of tin plates and cups designed for tea parties that bored me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

My trig equations were far beneath his abilities, but if he was bored he didn’t show it; he just explained the principles patiently, over and over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And some of them bore jottings, also in Chinese, in their margins. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lionstar, read the letters on her stem, beneath a fluttering banner that bore the arms of the boy king on the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You were a terrible bore of a student and you’re a terrible bore of—whatever you are. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Pong turned toward the guards who were leaning against the wall behind him, looking almost as bored with life in Namwon as the prisoners were. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Since the movie houses were now off -limits due to lack of funds, he would have had to drift, bored and aimless, around the business district until it seemed safe to return home. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own theory, which I included on my poster, is that yawning is a semipolite way of telling someone that they’re boring everyone to death. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Others said he was lucky to have survived and bore no guilt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had been bored and dissatisfied in his new position. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was evident from Feral’s glower that he was losing, while Minya looked half bored, and stifled a yawn before moving her piece. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Although he had reached a high stage of self-discipline and bore his last wound well, he now felt as if these ordinary people were his brothers. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I leave for Europe with my cheating father, who is, as you know, also deeply boring. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was standing in the aisle with all the cheap dinnerware, looking bored while her mom turned over a package of plastic silverware. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It’s all right to be boggled once in a while, but don’t make a habit of it. bone of contention.This geriatric expression is getting osteoporosis. bored to tears. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn't pick a fight with him just because she was bored. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t say bored so much as you were a little bit—” “Don’t say it, Lucas,” I said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He grows bored of eating the same thing day after day, and one evening he discreetly pushes the remaining food to the side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z