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Definition of tedium:

  • (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  • (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness

Sentence Examples:

Tedium is thus ever the same.

I have a memory of infinite tedium.

Then you will have known tedium.

Will you have your tedium rare or medium?

The afternoon was one long tedium.

The mortal tedium left them patient.

The universal note was that of tedium.

There followed some ninety-six hours of pure tedium.

"You are dying of tedium here; for you have ambition?"

The evening dragged itself out with desolating tedium.

"I don't fancy I should suffer from tedium, somehow."

He could hardly bear the tedium of the short journey.

In that event, what tedium and regret lay before her!

There was no tedium in the carriage from morning to night.

Others could escape the tedium of camp life occasionally at least.

Three, four, five, or six hours of highly concentrated tedium.

To relieve the tedium of waiting he went out into the garden.

All knew that Nero from tedium sought recreation in night attacks.

Pity we have neither cards nor dice to divert the tedium.

Our dear Harry experiences tedium and disappointment with his dear parents?

You shall have a little break in the tedium of travel anyway.

His muscles are firm, and his mind can support tedium.

She did not disguise from him the tedium of her existence.

All these are things quite compatible with fundamental tedium and decay.

The intense tedium of their captivity cannot be expressed by words.

Rarely has so much talent been spent to produce greater tedium.

You will be here as if in heaven, if tedium does not weary you.

Oh, what could be duller than this dear tedium of the country?

Two persons only felt not the enforced tedium to be a weariness.

He will not endure the tedium of soothing and tending his child.

They were rather indifferent, with an expression of expectancy, and even tedium.

He was relieved from this tedium by another summons to the office.

There was absolutely nothing to relieve the tedium of the passing hours.

Looking back upon the journey later, she never remembered its tedium.

Filling up vacuums, in intervals of social stagnation relieving the tedium of existing?

Private dramatic entertainments were got up to relieve the tedium of unemployed time.

Are they mere diversions meant to while away the tedium of the holidays?

Nor do the pleasures of a refined table solace the tedium of life.

Bob, thus forming his Utopian plans, forgot the tedium of the trail.

Watt was at no loss for occupation to relieve the tedium of old age.

We thanked the officer for relieving our tedium with his marvelous story.

Tedium is the most terrible and the most powerful foe love ever encounters.

Here the enjoyment lies in the excitement itself, in the victory over tedium.

He dropped back into his seat, resigning himself to tedium a little longer.

Not long, however, was he compelled to undergo the tedium of army life.

"And then once more the tedium of respectability positively stares us in the face."

The trouble with me was, I couldn't endure the tedium of a respectable life.

It made everything more easy, and took away all tedium from these prolonged conversations.

I did every thing I could to while away the tedium of this detention.

All my interests lay ahead; she knew only the tedium of the present.

As long prayer succeeded long prayer, the tedium of the day gripped him.

He didn't want tedium that was as long as the sentences of this prose.

Another hour of this stressful tedium and they heard a sound of sharp significance.

And tedium is the most terrible and the most powerful foe love ever encounters.

Yet now and again there were incidents which slightly relieved the tedium of existence.

The monotonous days that followed were fraught with uneasiness and the tedium of waiting.

They all know nothing but glittering lies, brilliant nonsense and sugared tedium.

The burden of Bessie's present life threatened to be the tedium of nothing to do.

I certainly do not believe that the Martians are subjected to the tedium of walking.

Is it not worth our while to suffer a little tedium for such an end?

Will there be no reaction, no fatigue, no level lengths of habit and of tedium?

Then as the heat of the day came on I experienced an enormous tedium and discomfort.

The remainder of the day was passed in the same dreadful tedium and suspense.

The road which leads one man straight to this joy leads another to tedium.

Now, many a time had he done likewise, with apparent interest and inward tedium.

All the poets in the world would not reconcile us to so much tedium.

It had all been the gradual result of the tedium of the life she led.

Still, in his opinion, the tedium of the day did the young people no good.

After the tedium of the narrow confines of a ward that in itself is exciting.

At the risk of tedium I feel bound to insist on this aspect of his life.

Sometimes weeks would pass with no prizes to relieve the tedium of the long voyage.

Every day they have need of new impressions and new theories to ward off tedium.

The conflicts in the school, if they gave me less tedium, were all the more acute.

This does not make the tedium that is eternal so particular that listening is a blessing.

He wins her love, and amuses the tedium of the journey by telling her tales.

She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries.

One day towards the end of September a great surprise broke the tedium of our captivity.

As a mode of relief from the tedium of delay, a short excursion was made into the prairie.

Mine are among the number of trivial things that compose the tedium which we call life.

She went to be measured for a gown and could not support the tedium of the operation.

I have neither the time nor the wish to stop and relieve the tedium of bored strangers.

Nor was there either reluctance or tedium in his face as he followed her through the room.

To depict the tedium of my life, it will be perhaps enough to portray my father to you.

Practice with depth bombs and smoke screens helped to relieve the tedium of the long trip.

The rest of the story may be understood without the tedium of further words by me.

"Then after that you were all right, except for the tedium of moving the lights around?"

And now the tedium of such a life was plainer to her than it would have been then.

The worst thing that can be said against poetry is that there is so much tedium in it.

He has had so much to look at on the journey that he has not felt any tedium.

I heard a tedium sung while I was there, but it wasn't any great things, to my taste.

Her short talk with him made up for all the tedium of the rest of that wretched afternoon.

While she is thus busy, he relieves the tedium of the task by a song, and a few caresses.

She was full of play, reading less than was her wont, but still with no sense of tedium.