1. bore
People who talk about themselves all the time bore me.
What a bore.
The pastor's sermons may bore you, but they are morally edifying.
He's such a bore! How can you spend so much time with him?
My wrath shall far exceed the love I ever bore.
He bore an unmistakable reference to his father. It made his mother cry.
meteor that has bored its way through the concrete floor
Put them in the schools where the kids are dying of boredom
Yaaawnn... This guy is really a bore. Doesn't he see that anybody listens to him?
When it's raining, children are bored.
if you refer to someone as a bore, you mean that they talk in a very dull and uninteresting way
That teacher can be a bore sometimes. The engineers bored a tunnel under the sea.
Today that sounds comically small-bore.
Am I bore? No, By no means!
To be honest, his talks are always a bore.
2. hole
ozone hole
These special characteristics explain its preference for still-hunting (lying motionless beside a seal's breathing hole, waiting for one to surface).
Forgetting his key, he was able to open the door by inserting a wire in the key hole.
In the Chinese football game in which the players used their feet and bodies - but never their hands - the goal was a hole in a net made from silk.
After the earthquake, people stared into the deep hole in the ground in surprise.
It took me about two and a half hours to dig a hole one meter in diameter and two meters in depth.
Bill got into such a hole with the payments on his house that now that he's lost his job, I don't know how he'll ever get out from under.
The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.
And the teams competed with each other to try to kick the ball through this hole.
On the way out I said to my waitress, "Be careful, Sue. There's something funny about the glasses you gave me - they're filled in on the top, and there's a hole on the bottom!"
And if the vacuum explodes, it is called a black hole.
Even if we do this, it will be another sixty years before the Antarctic ozone hole is repaired.
If a mouse only has one hole, it will soon perish.
John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
There was a hole in the ground in my garden, I walked into it and sprained my ankle.