English example sentences with "bore"

Learn how to use bore in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

He bore the future of the company on his shoulders.

How easy would it be to bore a tunnel through it?

The prisoner of war bore himself with great dignity.

The tax bore hard on the peasantry.

The document bore his signature.

People who talk about themselves all the time bore me.

You no doubt bore people.

The revolution, in itself, bore no fruit after all.

My wrath shall far exceed the love I ever bore.

I bore this trial.

Nobody bore me out.

His hard work bore fruit.

His research bore fruit in the end.

His wife bore him two daughters and a son.

His efforts bore fruit.

He bore himself well at the ceremony.

He bore himself well.

He bore a grudge against me.

They always bore arms with them.

Her efforts bore fruit.

She bore herself gracefully.

She bore no malice against you.

She bore the pain bravely.

She bore her sorrow well.

She bore the air of a lady.

She bore up well under unfavorable circumstances.

She bore her grief with dry eyes.

She bore her misfortunes with a brave spirit.

What a bore.

To be honest, his talks are always a bore.

Even small drops striking constantly will bore through a granite mountain.

He bore an unmistakable reference to his father. It made his mother cry.

The pastor's sermons may bore you, but they are morally edifying.

The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.

Our real life friends may sometimes bore us, but the friends we find in books would never do that.

My friends always say I'm too reserved, but my family always says I'm too much of a bore.

I won't bore you with the details.

If all professors bore all of their students, then all professors are wasting their time.

If a student and his or her professor bore each other, then both are wasting their time.

I don't want to bore you by repeating things you already know.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I don't want to bore you.

Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

That effort bore no fruit.

Your complaints bore me.

The tree bore golden apples.

What a bore!

She bore him four children.

You bore me.

They bore me.

It hurt so much I could have screamed, but I gritted my teeth and bravely bore the pain.

I just hope I didn't bore you with my story.

"Your Majesty, I have sensed great evil!" "Send Link to aid—" "It isn't Ganon!" "About time it's not him. He was starting to bore me. Who is it then, boy?" "I know not, but... it's already here!"

Tom's father is a brilliant actor, but in real life he's a crashing bore.

A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Tom bore the pain stoically.

He tends to bore people with his stories, which are notorious throughout the city.

You're starting to bore me.

Parties bore me.

"Father!" "Hey, Zelda!" "Hey, King!" "Hey, Link!" "Your Majesty, I missed your beautiful moustache." "Hey, purple turban guy." "...Do you even remember who I am?" "Yes! ...Oh hell, I forgot." "How could you forget my face? It looks so funny! See?" "I was in California for a month and I was too distracted by all the orgies and weed and delicious dinner to think about you." "Of course you forget me... As it is written: screw you, I'm out of here!" "Oh, he was a bore anyway."

Atlas bore the Earth on his shoulders.

I just hope I didn't bore you too much.

I just hope I didn't bore you.

The King of the East had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree that bore golden apples.

If a dictionary needed an example for the word "bore", you would fit perfectly.

Don't be a bore.

The CEO bore the brunt of investor anger after a record drop in the company's profits.

That movie ended up being a bore.

Truly my mother bore me as one of evil fate.

He bore criticism with great indulgence.

Oceanfront houses bore the brunt of the huge waves whipped up by the storm.

I'll try not to bore you to tears with this speech.

I could tell you about beekeeping for hours, but I don't want to bore you.

I think it would bore me stiff.

Did I bore you in there?

The community pastor wasn't a fiery preacher, but rather a talkative windbag and bore.

The poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not complain to her father, who would have scolded her if she had done so, for his wife governed him entirely.

Daphnis was in a sorry plight from the blows he had received, but seeing Chloe among the crowd, he bore his pain without complaint.

There was a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means.

I just hope I don't bore you too much.

Sami was a braggart and a bore.

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.

I hope I didn't bore you.

It hurt so much I could've screamed, but I gritted my teeth and bravely bore the pain.

Full many an evil, through the mindful hate / of cruel Juno, from the gods he bore, / much tost on earth and ocean.

One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.

"What happy ages did thy birth delight? / What godlike parents bore a child so bright?"

"Art thou, then, that AEneas, whom of yore / Venus on Simois' banks to old Anchises bore?"

Therewith the royal sceptre, which of yore / Ilione, Priam's eldest daughter, bore; / her shining necklace, strung with costly beads, / and diadem, rimmed with gold and studded o'er / with sparkling gems. Thus charged, Achates heeds, / and towards the ships forthwith in eager haste proceeds.

"Back o'er the deep," cries Calchas; "nevermore / shall Argives hope to quell the Trojan might, / till, homeward borne, new omens ye implore, / and win the blessing back, which o'er the waves ye bore."

Foul is his beard, his hair is stiff with gore, / and fresh the wounds, those many wounds, remain, / which erst around his native walls he bore.

Due rites to Venus and the gods I bore, / the work to favour, and a sleek, white steer / to Heaven's high King was slaughtering on the shore.

"Brave hearts, the land that bore / your sires shall nurse their Dardan sons again. / Seek out your ancient mother; from her shore / through all the world the AEneian house shall reign, / and sons of sons unborn the lasting line sustain."

"You have a very handsome stick," I answered. "By the inscription I observed that you had not had it more than a year. But you have taken some pains to bore the head of it and pour melted lead into the hole so as to make it a formidable weapon. I argued that you would not take such precautions unless you had some danger to fear."

The fleet was on mid ocean; land no more / was visible, naught else above, before / but sky and sea, when overhead did loom / a storm-cloud, black as heaven itself, that bore / dark night and wintry tempest in its womb, / and all the waves grew rough and shuddered with the gloom.

In front, above the temple-gates I rear / the brazen shield which once great Abas bore, / and mark the deed in writing on the door, / "AEneas these from conquering Greeks hath ta'en".

"These lands, 'tis said, one continent of yore / (such change can ages work) an earthquake tore / asunder; in with havoc rushed the main, / and far Sicilia from Hesperia bore, / and now, where leapt the parted land in twain, / the narrow tide pours through, 'twixt severed town and plain."

Tom is a bore.

When the Three Wise Men rode from the East into the West on that "first, best Christmas night," they bore on their saddle-bows three caskets filled with gold and frankincense and myrrh, to be laid at the feet of the manger-cradled babe of Bethlehem.

Every step she took was, as the witch had warned her beforehand, as if she were treading on sharp knives and spikes, but she bore it gladly.

With all the effort you've put in, is that all you could come up with to bore me to tears?

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