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How to use tedium in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Tedium means boredom or tediousness; ennui. Example: “The military reframed tedium as duty.”

Examples of tedium by meaning

nounBoredom or tediousness; ennui.

  • Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 192

More sentences with tedium

  • The military reframed tedium as duty.From the entry reframe
  • To break the tedium, they built snowmen and snowwomen, and snowkids.2012, George Groves Jr, Eden... Closed. From the entry snowwoman
  • They beguile the tedium of this enforced leisure by weaving baskets and playing on certain sacred flutes.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 241. From the entry beguile
  • After months of giddy motion, when audiences provided every stimulus he needed, the concertless days stretched ahead with terrible tedium.2019, Philip Norman, Sir Elton. From the entry concertless
  • Playing against an Aunt Emma can be tedium itself, for he lowers the game to a search-and-destroy exercise.1989, Jack R. Osborn, John C. Osborn, Croquet: The Sport, page 148. From the entry Aunt Emma
  • He was haunted, it seems, by the symbol of a Prometheus wearied of his immortality of anguish,— by the tedium vitae.1922, Isaac Goldberg, Brazilian Literature, New York: A.A. Knopf, page 154. From the entry taedium vitae
  • After a time this “progressive” logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room.1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father Brown. From the entry logomachy
  • It increases tight coupling and complexity, without the efficiency blessings we'd expect from this Faustian bargain—akin to trading our soul for a life of tedium.2023, Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart, Security Chaos Engineering, O'Reilly, →ISBN. From the entry ClickOps
  • This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium.2018 August 31, Peter Bradshaw, “The Other Side of the Wind review – lost Orson Welles epic is hurricane of anger and wit”, in The Guardian. From the entry dishevelled
  • Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew, page 228. From the entry keg
  • However, the tedium was a little relieved by the fact that I had to call in every services from Birmingham to Watford Gap.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 77. From the entry services
  • Behind its disappearance lay some notable but unrecorded change in the technique of dairy farming.² The tedium of the livestock inventories is frequently enlivened by glimpses of rural merry-making.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget

Meaning of tedium

  1. noun Boredom or tediousness; ennui.

Full definition of tedium

Questions about tedium in a sentence

How do you use tedium in a sentence?
Tedium is used as a noun. For example: “The military reframed tedium as duty.”
What is a short sentence with tedium?
“The military reframed tedium as duty.”
What does tedium mean?
Tedium means boredom or tediousness; ennui.

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