When she has finished the tiresome job she goes to bed, carelessly leaving the scissors lying on the desk next to the phone.

You are responsible for the tiresome job of security of the server.

It was a long, tiresome job, and his strength was not what it had been.

We stopped work occasionally and listened intently into the night before starting our tiresome job again.

Even a short release from the long and tiresome job of dying would be welcome at this point.

She had made the lobster salad herself, a long, tiresome job; the rest of the buffet was prepared by the caterer.

It would be a long and tiresome job to detail the ways in which this production goes wrong.

It would be a tiresome job but well worth it.

"When you get in," he said, "there's nothing to look at except the people - and that's soon a tiresome job."

Regular weeding is a tiresome but essential job.