bone-weary
Example Sentences
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But as he bickers amusingly with his old friend Roger, the kindly grump who owns the store, she is too bone-weary to engage.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2023
As I was towed on the trunk of my friend’s electric tricycle ridden by my partner, we, along with another bone-weary friend, hit a bulwark of dust.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023
He shows Wick to be a man with a conscience, quietly angry and bone-weary.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
Romeo, bespectacled, potbellied, and bone-weary, is not much of a Romeo.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2017
Among them they sported twenty separate dressing rooms, four shower rooms, twenty hot-water showers, storage on the ground level for ninety-seven racing shells, and rooms full of massage tables for bone-weary oarsmen.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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