The word "bores" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an intransitive verb to describe when something is dull and lacking in interest. Example sentence: Everyone at the party was bored because the conversation just bores them.
A division of the state-owned China Railway Group supplied some of the bores for Kuala Lumpur's metro expansion.Despite the boom, making big boring machines is not an easy business to succeed in.
Another will chime in: "A hundred sugars!" Academics have recently uncovered the oldest tea in Britain, proving once and for all that we have been tea bores for more than 300 years.
The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial".
Everyone from media pundits and academic analysts to bookmakers and saloon bar bores expects what Brits call a hung parliament when no one wins: like the one elected in 2010 that ousted Labour's Gordon Brown but denied Cameron a majority.
In Heritage's bleak view of our capital city, anonymity is the goal; strangers are potential bores or frightening freaks, and conversation is an intrusion into one's own internal monologue or the next level of Angry Birds.
The 55km Brenner Base Tunnel, being dug between Austria and Italy, and the 57km Gotthard Base Tunnel, under Switzerland, will greatly increase rail capacity for both freight and passengers between northern Europe and Italy, taking traffic off clogged Alpine roads.Plans to bring water to thirsty cities are also keeping bores busy.
The strict and remorseless verse (the Alexandrine couplet with its 12/12 beat) terrifies actors and bores audiences.
Because these drilling sites serve many well bores that often must be fracked to promote the flow of oil and gas from tight formations they operate 24 hours a day.Local air pollution from leaks of methane, benzene and other harmful hydrocarbons can cause serious health problems for nearby residents.
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The repetition involved can be numbing: New Labourites used to complain that the moment they became heartily sick of saying something, and convinced that they sounded like interminable bores, was about the moment ordinary people began to catch on.
The prospect of a more powerful Scottish government, said Mr Cameron, meant that the time had come at last to grapple with the West Lothian question, a British constitutional oddity that has kept political scientists and pub bores in happy disagreement for decades.
