careworn

Example Sentences

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Carthy's voice is careworn but it's never less than compelling.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

There's the careworn, eccentric female lead, equally brilliantly realized by newcomer to the screen, Alana Haim.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

With his melancholy, careworn face and battered physicality, Collins lends Jackson a guarded soulfulness that makes his character simultaneously inscrutable and transparent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2022

His attention gravitates instead toward the Novelos, though sometimes it also alights on the grave, careworn faces of their past and present employees.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2021

And seen closer in the light of two candles that he lit and carried before them the landlord’s face looked rather wrinkled and careworn.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien