Sentence examples for tried to bore from inspiring English sources

(He hated birds, he said, "because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work").

The capper, though, was Emmert's news conference, in which he initially tried to bore everyone with a 16-minute soliloquy, then lost almost all contact with reality while sparring with reporters about, well, all of the above.

In an attempt to expand the system and add new ratepayers, the county tried to bore a giant tunnel beneath the Cahaba River, Birmingham's main source of drinking water.

Not once has one of these after-the-fact analyzers considered the possibility that, just as the thirties Communists and the early-sixties New Right tried to bore us into submission, Khalid the Droll is engaged in an elaborate scheme to embarrass us to death.

The water that bore him up tried to bear him away, but he was caught among the posts of the decrepit wharf and there he was, ready to go and not going.

Brownstein tried to bear this in mind years later when dealing with fans of Sleater-Kinney, the explosive Washington rock band she formed with Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss in 1994.

"He tried to bear hug me," Devitt said, and alleges that Sayem used racial slurs during the incident.

Devitt can be heard telling his supervisor that he pulled Sayem from the car, and punched the drunken man because Sayem tried to "bear hug" him.

A policeman joked: "We're trying to bore them to death so they'll go home".

She tries to bore her way through the shrubbery, almost comically, to get to her lover on the other side.

Some people inside the truck were apparently taking turns trying to bore holes into the door to create air pockets.