tired out

Example Sentences

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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

On a visit to Maine, he learned that Biddle had told his mother that Fuller “was tired out and needed someone to look after him.”

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2022

“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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

We said we were a little sleepy, that we didn’t want to be all tired out tomorrow and that we didn’t want Mother to be worried because we had stayed out late.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey