1.   I could see no way of escaping the boredom of the small-town social scene.

2.   As it stands, he will spend the season trying to escape boredom and figuring out what to do with his life.

3.   She used to hate reading, but after the flood she said she found it was one of her favorite ways to escape boredom.

4.   The desperate, criminal effort to escape the boredom, the fatigue of the rat race.