11.   In between, they seized any absurdity to relieve the boredom.

12.   It relieved the boredom.

13.   John Childs, an anthropologist living in Choguita, said they drink to relieve boredom.

14.   Like many of her sixth-grade girlfriends, Ceci Gonzalez turned to sports and exercise to relieve the boredom of growing up in Brownsville, Texas.

15.   Others smoked marijuana to relieve the boredom of long hours on the road.

16.   Rather, she said, they appeared to write viruses for the intellectual challenge or to relieve boredom.

17.   That helps relieve the boredom.

18.   The point of the giant singing Elvis or the one frozen rattlesnake in the meat case is to relieve the boredom of shopping for groceries.

19.   There is little to relieve the boredom, except when Taliban artillerists lob shells at this exposed hilltop.

20.   To relieve boredom, he played a lot of golf.