Sentence examples for bore of a from inspiring English sources
It was a drenched, Duke-chilling, mind-numbing bore of a dud TV spectacle.
Bullets are measured by their calibre, which indicates the interior diameter, or bore, of a gun barrel.
Yes, you can argue details, like the hollow bore of a tokamak, but the size of the huge superconducting magnets and their heavy support structures provides no relief.
It's a herbaceous bore of a movie which trades in twee Oirish cliches and features a male romantic lead who has all the charisma of a shrub.
It's a numbing bore of a movie, and I can't even work up much righteous indignation over its retrograde view of relationships.
Robert Hayward lusted and leered as Boris, Katerina's father-in-law, with Peter Hoare appropriately self-important as the crashing bore of a husband.
Yet underneath the monotonous diary-like ruminations of this bore-of-a-cyborg, there are flashes of "true" emotion.
This is music borne of a body's suffering.
But, borne of a skeptical reading of America's recent entanglements overseas, it can't be described as callow.
The idea was borne of a family tragedy.
It was an amazing performance, borne of a doubt before the Games which dissipated.
