How to use "ennui" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ennui" in popular movie and book plots

  • Danny's well funded ennui leads to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Pearce) and acerbic trainer Kat (Smulders).  - Results (film)
  • Toby also recounts his story, in which he begins to feel ennui at his failure to damn humans for some time.  - Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me
  • As the novel opens, they languish in ennui because they have no children, and Sosuke has to focus on his career.  - The Gate (novel)
  • While their marriage is free of problems and they have many friends, a cloud of ennui hangs over their domestic life.  - Players (DeLillo novel)
  • The main issue for the Underground Man is that he has reached a point of ennui and inactivity.  - Notes from Underground

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