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
Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with no replacements to relieve them.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 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
Waitressing is also something I’d like to avoid, because I remember it leaving me bone-tired when I was eighteen, and I’m decades of varicosities and back pain beyond that now.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
