Sentence examples for merely bored from inspiring English sources

Walmart sounds merely bored by Asda, rather than ready to fund a price war.

As the bad tips and the dubious suspects pile up, one Zodiac investigator after another, devoured by the hunt or merely bored, leaves the case or retires.

One of them has the grace to look quite uncomfortable and sorry; the other is merely bored, as if he wants this unpleasant part over with.

But while much of their output is raw, dark and vitriolic, the group itself often projects a colourful, humorous aesthetic and a lighter side that suggests that they are merely bored young people trying to wind up and offend as many people as possible, just for the sake of it.

Yet part of the audience at The Haunting wasn't merely bored, it was hostile- as if the movie, by assuming interests they didn't have, made them feel resentful or inferior.

"Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't come back from Iraq" — while others seem merely bored.

I'll post my review tomorrow but it seemed to divide opinion among the people I spoke to afterwards - one man said he was not merely unmoved but bored by it.

Tender but bored.

In the more jaded current era — "Is he merely a bored rich guy who is running out of ways to keep himself amused?" Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times once carped — Fossett was only moderately well known.

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