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How to use wearisome in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Wearisome means tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue. Example: “Gardening can be wearisome work.”

Examples of wearisome by meaning

adjectiveTiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

  • Gardening can be wearisome work.
  • For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714

More sentences with wearisome

  • Laborious experiment to discover the facts about our environment is wearisome to all but a persistent few.2014, Eric Temple Bell, The Magic of Numbers - Page 76. From the entry blundersome
  • Following these conversions, the Knights Templars noted their exhaustion from the wearisome Crusade which began over two years earlier in Rome.2006, Anthony Robert Sebelin II, gods of Old, Gods of New: A Mysteriously Romantic New World Saga, volume I (Perilous Adventures of Faith…. From the entry Knight Templar
  • After playing with them in BG1, BG2, IWD1 and now NWN, the same old spells are becoming somewhat wearisome.2002 November, “Icewind Dale 2”, in PC Powerplay, page 67. From the entry BG2
  • Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerous checkings of her map, reached the flat.1991, Kathleen Conlon, Unfinished Business, →ISBN. From the entry checking
  • “Obviously, my dear sir, you are not one of those wearisome, prettysome cottage gardeners, but, whether by luck or no, here is.2016, H. F. Heard, A Taste for Honey. From the entry prettysome
  • It never becomes wearisome or tarnished.1920, John Collings Squire, “Initials”, in Life and Letters: Essays, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 233–235. From the entry john
  • To the east lay the unimaginable, the dangerous, and the wearisome; and a feeling of timidity came over his bold heart: this water world was dangersome.2008, Hamlin Garland, Her Mountain Lover. From the entry dangersome
  • After our wearisome, yet zestful, mountain-climb perhaps we shall find a besceptered Truth—absolute, majestic, and immortal, reclining like a Zeus on an Olympus ruling the reality of things.1955, Max Rosenberg, Introduction to Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 17. From the entry besceptered
  • The breezy humour and slapdash boisterousness of their platform rhetoric appeal to King Demos, who is apt to weary of the wearisome dialectics of the choplogics of Westminster.1909, W[illiam] T[homas] Stead, The Review of Reviews, volume 40, page 115. From the entry choplogic

Meaning of wearisome

  1. adjective Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

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Questions about wearisome in a sentence

How do you use wearisome in a sentence?
Wearisome is used as an adjective. For example: “Gardening can be wearisome work.”
What is a short sentence with wearisome?
“Gardening can be wearisome work.”
What does wearisome mean?
Wearisome means tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

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