overworked

Example Sentences

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Orbit City is full of buttons, and overworked fingers are a running gag in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Across the United States, major airports have been inundated by flight disruptions, security lines spilling out of terminals, air traffic control outages, and overworked and understaffed employees struggling to keep it all running.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026

“I hear it from clients, I hear it from friends and I hear it from family … ‘I’m overworked.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

"My nutrition's on point, I go to the gym, I'm a healthy guy, but I've just overworked myself clearly."

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Their faces seemed so old, so dark, calling forth overworked cliches about the earth and the sky and the wind.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols