Sentence examples for slightly bored from inspiring English sources

That the choristers look on, slightly bored and slightly touched, gives no clue.

Still, why pass the keys to the kingdom to a slightly bored dinner guest?

Strolling around the Nashua fire station, hands crammed in pockets, he was looking slightly bored, or perhaps tired.

The problem is that this shtick can get old after 10 or 15 hours, and I found myself becoming slightly bored with all the gymnastics.

Dyer first saw Stalker in his 20s and, though "slightly bored and unmoved" by it on that first viewing, he has returned to the film obsessively ever since.

"What temperature would you like your steak?" she asks, with the friendly, slightly bored cadence of a diner waitress or school nurse.

Tim Hall's portrait shows his wife in their shared studio, their slightly bored-looking pug by her side, and her portrait of René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen – repeatedly voted the best restaurant in the world – on her easel.

Those who stayed away did not miss much while an at-times slightly bored-looking France were beating an England side much better off the ball than on it 1-0.

When she's pursuing her formidable gift for the charmingly inconsequential – to the point where it sometimes feels as if she's got a slightly bored-looking guy with a bass drum and hi-hat permanently stationed behind her, ready to go ba-boom-tish! every few sentences – she's also making an argument.

In August 2010, the usually deadpan, slightly-bored-of-Britain magazine the Economist published a rare excited-about-Britain article.

The rabbit hopped, looking slightly less bored than usual.