tired out

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A 6 July letter from high-ranking congressman Jamie Raskin was made public on Thursday, where the Maryland representative compared the president to a baseball pitcher whose arm has "tired out".

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

“I mean, I was a little oblivious to what was going on. I was dead tired out there, just grinding and trying to do my best to stop them,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022

That protection improved over the course of the game, as USC tired out Notre Dame’s defensive front with tempo changes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2021

But teachers seemed, he said, “a bit tired out and rightly so.”

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

Marcus, tired out, had slept through the night, but he had awoken at dawn with a stifled pain.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks