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boring - use in sentences
Preposition: as
- hell: If you do it all the time, it's as boring as hell.
Adjective modifier
- bloody: Film Quarterly, 1959 I found 'Ben Hur ' in every way bloody bloody and bloody boring.
Modifies a noun
- fart: Oh give it a rest you boring old right wing farts!
- stuff: Resources relevant to specific children's titles can be found in the ' boring stuff ' area of the book page.
- bit: We have to sit through all the boring bits that we really don't understand.
- machine: At the Clara mine itself a trial was taking place early in 1864 with a boring machine supplied by the Cambrian foundry in Aberystwyth.
- job: He's got a boring job selling boring clothes to boring people.
- routine: Who ( beside pilots ) would complain about the pilot's life being reduced to boring routine?
Modifying Another Word
- mind-numbingly: Heartfield thought that the actual choices the market mechanism presents are mind-numbingly boring.
- numbingly: Sometimes the songs were good enough to overcome it, but mostly the albums have been numbingly boring.
- incredibly: So I wrote " I find the Bob Car incredibly boring.
- frankly: Tho the exercises were appropriate to the injury I had sustained, they were quite frankly boring.
- terribly: If you love your sport and people who speak their mind without being terribly boring, then this station is for you.
Noun used with modifier
- auger: The auger boring on Igoe's job was a tad trickier than Perco allowed for.
- bit: The original intro was a bit boring, just a conventional piece of lead guitar.
Preposition: after
- while: Customer Rating: Summary: Great to begin with, but gets boring after a while.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: It might seem boring, but spending a few minutes checking your vehicle every day could save you a lot of problems and stress.
- get: Hearing the same view from all of your personalities was getting boring.
- become: At the risk of becoming boring I offer further comments.
- sound: It's hard to describe the book without it sounding boring.
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