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overworked

How to use overworked in a sentence

What weighed with me, too, was the fact that I was undoubtedly overworked and my health was suffering.

Kilkelly was a busy, but never seemed an overworked man, due I suppose to some constitutional quality he enjoyed.

When they saw that their complaints were futile they sent over one socialist leader to have it out with the overworked purser.

The floor was constantly inundated here by several defective and overworked water-faucets and a leaky trough.

Why, I almost insulted them; told them Adot was a barren field, overworked and already supplied with their spiritual needs.

It was not the function of the State or the Church to provide social opportunities for uneducated, overworked young people.

How could the apathetic be awakened, the discouraged stimulated, the overworked rested and cheered?

It hung over the grimy overworked mothers, and the poor grimy fledglings of children in the little huddled houses.

A poor little shabby, overworked thing, all eyes, and too big a forehead.

MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNAN

I believe in trusting in providence, but I can't bear to see providence overworked.

THE REGENTE. ARNOLD BENNETT

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OCTOBER 26, 1985