bone-tired
Example Sentences
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I suffered nausea, sickness, headache and then - because of all the steroids I had to take - I couldn't sleep at night despite being bone-tired.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
No matter how bone-tired she was, Cotten would bring out her guitar — not so much for her own pleasure, but to help keep order.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
In “Hustle,” Hernangómez plays Bo Cruz, a Spanish street ball phenom in Timberland boots plucked from obscurity by Sandler’s Stanley Sugerman, a bone-tired scout for the Philadelphia 76ers.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
Her husband helped out, but after a month and a half, bone-tired and emotionally drained, Millikan went to her employer to see whether some accommodations could be made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
They were bone-tired and had nowhere else to go.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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