ennui

How To Use ennui In A Sentence

• The ennui among young Germans is such that couples cannot be bothered to procreate in numbers sufficient to sustain the population.
• To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection.
• The best assessment, however, comes from my husband, who chortled, "She basically ennui-ed herself out the door!" as he refilled his wine glass. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross
• Partly it's just a recovery attitude after a very busy month, but it's more than that; ennui perhaps.
• He sets all of this action in a kind of unnamed anywhere, a mildly bizarro world of wacky mini-mart customers, humdrum garden apartments and seething ennui.
• He was Carl Schirmer, the avatar of ennui, the eternal ephebe, always more eager for ambience than destiny. In Other Worlds
• I suppose this is what they call ennui," said Eric again, after a pause. Eric, or Little by Little
• How can we overcome the general ennui associated with the thought of another incredibly boring day ahead of you?
• Did their mother die of ennui or choke on a chicken bone? Times, Sunday Times
• Since losing his job, he has often experienced a profound sense of ennui.