wearied

Example Sentences

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Wearied by the craft overtones of the medium, Mr. Bengston shifted his sights to painting.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Wearied by rejection, unable to secure a tenure-track professorship, Mark’s confined to making his “mark” through nostalgic covers of bluegrass music and fact-checking other people’s articles.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

Wearied by the suffocating heat, the crowd's initial response was muted.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2013

Wearied by French intransigence, Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden suggested that the Powers next meet, not in the stuffy boudoir atmosphere of Brussels or Paris but in the cool objective air of Geneva.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wearied by all they had gone through, the sodden rabbits crouched without talking, incapable of any feeling but a dull relief and without even the energy to wonder what was going to happen next.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams