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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

This becomes as tedious as a temper tantrum.

How do you stop yourself becoming as tedious as a holiday slide show and make people pay attention?

And despite his passion for the material, his coldly academic prose is as tedious as a term paper.

Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.

Perhaps because there is nothing quite as tedious as a man describing the nuanced notes of hops, the Scots go to macho extremes, including brewing a Colonial-style ale with corn, molasses and elements distilled from a copy of the Declaration of Independence, while atop a float in a Fourth of July parade in Pottstown, Pa.

If the self wasn't up to snuff, the stories could become as tedious as an overheard cellphone conversation, exercises in terminal narcissism.

Clicking your way down to the one you want has become as tedious as punching a telephone keypad through an interminable recording.

Although making a hot button political issue as tedious as possible is probably a key Facebook strategy.

The bulk of the film is, frankly, as tedious as being cornered at a party by some old hippy chuntering incessantly about realigning your chakras.

In this maelstrom of tension, the issue of BBC governance may appear as tedious as the minutes of a commission sub-committee, yet it should instead focus minds on how important the independence of the BBC really is.

As tedious as exposition can be on a console, it's exponentially so on a mobile game; here some of the all-time most popular titles have eschewed story altogether, or, in the case of an Angry Birds, left holes galore for Hollywood to drive their truck through in the inevitable adaptation.