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Meanings of sheer boredom in English

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Usage of sheer boredom in English
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A moment before I had been hot and faint with sheer boredom.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
2
Lucas took to drinking, after a time, to allay his sheer boredom.
The Breaking Point
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The phoney potted palms were considering growing roots, out of sheer boredom.
The Irish Times
4
Part of the problem was the sheer boredom of it all.
The passage
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Waiting would be sheer boredom and in this weather the height of discomfort.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
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The scientists created wilder and wilder experiments out of sheer boredom.
Sea of Rust
7
Three ordinary men would have quarrelled through sheer boredom before they reached Southampton.
The Kipling Reader / Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kiplin...
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Drunken Nazis with submachine guns, hunting wolves out of sheer boredom.
The Wolf’s Hour
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You, an artist, and you are taking a walk out of sheer boredom.
The Precipice
10
Something else that he remembers about the snows of 1947 was the sheer boredom.
The Irish Times
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For sheer boredom with the whole business, the Squire had approved and sent the letter.
Elizabeth's Campaign
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I do it out of sheer boredom, because I am idle and have no occupation.
The Precipice
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In spite of their exhaustion, many of them from sheer boredom were trudging to the Hermitage.
The Bishop and Other Stories
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Out of sheer boredom, she read through it.
Nano
15
Out of sheer boredom I invited Florence over.
God don't like ugly
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I didn't foresee the... sheer boredom of immortality.
Book One: Apotheosis
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