Sentence examples for terrible bore from inspiring English sources

Miss Harriet Twist Tait, a shipboard acquaintance, was a terrible bore.

She acknowledges that he was probably, at times, a terrible bore, not to speak of a burden to his family.

It is bound to get "pesonal" when regular adversaries swap words, that is just normal human interaction and can be good fun or a terrible bore.

By James Reid Parker The New Yorker, August 13 , 1949P. 22 Miss Harriet Twist Tait, a shipboard acquaintance, was a terrible bore.

(Ignorant Jane-bashing is all the rage these days — just look at the critic Brian Sewell's declaration that Austen is a "terrible bore" in a recent interview in The Guardian).

At best your lift sharer will be a terrible bore or have poor personal hygiene (or both), and you'll be stuck together, for hours, just the two of you, side by side, staring at the road ahead.

But as the market got better after a terrible bear market, funds did better.

Having had a terrible bear market we now can reasonably expect several good stock market years.

Selling stocks in the middle of a financial crisis and terrible bear market is never a good idea.

That put an abrupt end to the terrible bear market that had battered equity averages by almost 60%.

Last year saw a terrible bear market, and my recommendations went down an average 15% from the dates of their publication in the magazine through year-end.