weary
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“We’ve talked to everyone we can,” Al-Drimly said, his voice weary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The road is long and weary, filled with detours and extended stops.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Cubans are not shy about admitting that they are increasingly weary of the constant disruptions to daily life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
He's weary, but at least has a story to tell about his day.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The large, weary, and bruised rabbit, anxious and jumpy.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
Golovkin finally upped his work rate and made progress against a wearier Canelo in the late rounds, but it wasn’t enough.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
But Radha is older, wearier and more beaten down than Nola, and she takes a while longer to take ownership of her story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
“I don’t care,” Miranda says in a wearier tone, about the current president — who’s been critical of the show on Twitter before — showing up to see his musical or not.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018
The man behind the desk looked like an older, much wearier version of Chris.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
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
Cruise seems weariest of all, flogging outdated merchandise he can’t even pretend to believe in.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2017
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
The world wearies of its manner from time to time.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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
My eyes have felt similarly as of late, wearied and underlined by dark circles after all their hours spent desperately seeking something exquisite.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
There’s even the odd love song, in which Williams’ grizzled voice shades in the heartbreak with wearied affection.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Waves of attacks pounded down on Paris St.-Germain, now dizzied and wearied.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
"I felt tired and wearied by the heat,” he explained later, "so nothing was done about it then.”
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
At first it was staggering, the boom, boom, boom, watching both players crack heavy serve after heavy serve, but it started to become a little wearying, like watching an extended game of Whac-A-Mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bram, his husband, has a demanding job at a museum in Rotterdam and Arnold’s bitterness has grown wearying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
Mr. Irwin, 71, previously an account manager for a local business, is wearying of yard work and snow shoveling, and finding workers to do those chores instead has become difficult.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
After a week of wearying rejection, the newness had worn off.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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