weary

Now parts of the pavements are being widened to make it a more pleasant place to spend time, though many Aberdonians are weary of the disruption, and of new traffic restrictions.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Though the president spoke in front of foreign leaders and dignitaries, the real audience was the American public, which has grown weary of the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We’ve talked to everyone we can,” Al-Drimly said, his voice weary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

I would watch him, ceaselessly moving among his hundreds of charges, counseling, encouraging, finding a simpler job for the weary, a harder one for the restless.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

As time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.

From BBC ● May 25, 2023

Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows ever wearier of pandemic-related restrictions.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

The motel I had booked looked wearier than ecstatic reviews of vintage Americana had led me to believe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

This Friday, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” starring Ben Affleck as an older, wearier action hero, opens, and I’ll probably use my 8-year-old son as an excuse to go see it.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016

The wearier she grew, the heavier Constance seemed.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

That it happens this way every year, offering an annual day of hope to even the weariest baseball cities, remains somehow powerful.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

With what had to be the weariest left hand in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed the last of nearly 1,000 bills he approved this year.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

The sun has barely set on a roaring summer concert season and a busy fall slate ensures there will be no rest for even the weariest local music fans.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

The under-fire Steve Bruce must have met news of Ronaldo’s return with the weariest of sighs.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2021

Do I take both before dinner, which is usually about 7:30, leaving an unbroken two-and-a-half-hour stretch when I’m weariest, between 8:30 and 11:00?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

But numerous media reports suggest that he has been marginalised as Trump wearies of being controlled and seeks to cut loose.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2018

“Joy wearies me, and I hate happiness when I catch a glimpse of it in a human expression,” he told Newsweek in 1963.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017

Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the technical difficulty of writing almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett rarely wearies or falters.

From Time Magazine Archive

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

This was not something you could have accused her of over the summer, and was perhaps a sign of a body and mind wearied by nine months on the road.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

Although the Diocese of Orange doesn’t keep demographic figures on its congregants, the Knights of Peter Claver leaders shook their heads with wearied smiles about how few Black Catholics they’ve met at their own parishes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

The problem with cramming for the Oscars, as I do every year to varying degrees of success, is that it renders one cinematically wearied.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

He’s a sensitive hero with vigor and swagger, a traveler in love with the universe instead of wearied by its greed and destructiveness.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

We could not see them but their Cerberus tumult filled the black wood and wearied us still more.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Since that man is at no point real to us—no more than the character in a comic sketch—the film’s increasing wildness takes on the feeling of a wearying and empty freakout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But everyone is going through something difficult in “Cordially,” and the lack of, well, cordiality can be wearying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

It made parenting less wearying when I could flick through my kids’ toy catalogs, searching for the toys I wanted.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024

What he got had a wearying familiarity to it.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

At the end of Van Ness, after several foot- wearying miles, we came to a warehouse.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep