Crossword-Solution: BORES 5 letters, 133 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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BORES anagram BOERS, BORSE, BROSE, OBERS, ROBES, SERBO, SOBER, SOBRE

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Afflicts with ennui. 1 answer
Anesthetizes an audience 1 answer
Anesthetizes an entire audience 1 answer
Attacks crops 1 answer
Bad conversationalists 1 answer
Bad sorts to be stuck talking to at a gathering 1 answer
Big yawns 1 answer
Brings to tears? 1 answer
Caliber determinants 1 answer
Calibers 1 answer
Causes ennui 1 answer
Causes of much yawning 1 answer
Causes snores 1 answer
Causes to yawn 1 answer
Causes to yawn, maybe 1 answer
Causes to yawn, perhaps 1 answer
Causes to yawn, say 1 answer
Causes yawning 1 answer
Causes yawning perhaps 1 answer
Causes yawns 1 answer
Crummy dates 1 answer
Dangerous tidal flows 1 answer
Didactic types, often 1 answer
Dinner party duds 1 answer
Does nothing at all for 1 answer
Doesn't interest 1 answer
Drills a hole 1 answer
Drills down 1 answer
Drives to drop off 1 answer
Dull folks 1 answer
Ear benders 1 answer
Ear-benders 1 answer
Earbenders, generally 1 answer
Elicits yawns 1 answer
Evokes yawns 1 answer
Fails to interest 1 answer
Gets to nod 1 answer
Goes on and on about minutiae for an hour and a half, say 1 answer
Goes on and on about the recent changes in your child's nap schedule, e.g. 1 answer
Gun calibers 1 answer
Hardly the best guests 1 answer
High crested waves. 1 answer
Hollow parts of pipes. 1 answer
Induces ennui 1 answer
Inferior speakers 1 answer
Lecturers, at times 1 answer
Long-winded ones 1 answer
Long-winded people. 1 answer
Loses the attention of 1 answer
Makes yawn 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BORES (5)

Nothing of that kind ever amuses me to the end: before it ‘s half over it bores me to death; it makes me sick.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Otherwise I shall have to play, and Harry Scarisbrooke is going to come in unexpectedly about nine-fifteen, and I particularly want to be free to talk to him while the others are playing.” “Sorry, my dear, no can do,” said Suzanne; “ordinary bridge at three-pence a hundred, with such dreadfully slow players as your aunts, bores me to tears.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
She’s got a lot of bores coming—intellectual ones, I mean; that’s her new line, you know, and I’m not sure it ain’t worse than the music.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Nevertheless, frail and delicate flowers bloom there, flowers of both the land and the sea; heavy, ungainly seals disport in the swelling waves, and find grateful retreats back in the inmost bores of its storm-lashed caverns; while in many a chink and hollow of the highest crags, not visible from beneath, a great variety of waterfowl make homes and rear their young.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995

Quotes with BORES (3)

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
Charles Bukowski Women
LAW 25Re-Create Yourself Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions — your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power
My own business always bores me to death
I prefer other people's.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 150 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).