tucker
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I will take my French mastiff Rosie for a hike at Fryman Canyon to tucker her out for the day and also just feel like I moved on a Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
"Goannas are significant cultural totems for Traditional Owners across northern Australia, and an important bush tucker food," Dr Ward-Fear says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
She has experience of bush tucker trials, having appeared on I'm A Celebrity's spin-off show, Extra Camp, where she was made to eat sheep brains.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2022
The duchess joked that she thought she was "in trouble" and that they were going to make her do one of their "tucker trials."
From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021
“Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
In their best bibs and tuckers, Hollywood's finest lined up with Britain's luvvie elite to tussle over, to quote Billy Connolly, "a death mask on a stick".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah, raiment fine and gems are mine, and costly bibs and tuckers; I got my rocks for mining stocks—I worked the jays and suckers.
From Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
What noble candor, to admit that the undutifulness of people, who did not think the honor of adjusting her tuckers worth the sacrifice of their own lives, was, though highly criminal, not altogether unnatural!
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Betty did her part with all her might, washed lace, and trimmed sleeves, and made tuckers, giving little toilette counsels, while her heart ached sorely all the time.
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Labs are happiest in an active household, but when they’re tuckered out, prepare yourself for a cuddle fest — and to be amazed at how much space one dog can take up in your bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Other than everybody just getting tuckered out — perpetual conflict can be exhausting — the reality is that Sawant has always been more story than substance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Recently, tuckered out by the demands of being a social-media influencer and hurt by not making headway on her second novel, she just wants a rest.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On one day of my testing, the regular iPhone 13 made it from 7am to midnight before it tuckered out.
From The Verge ● Sep. 21, 2021
Still, I was worn down to a nub by bedtime, too tuckered to sleep.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
There, in the half-shade, he saw the horse standing, the sunshine and the tuckering shadow of leaves dancing over his brown body.
From The Prussian Officer by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I wuz most melted too, for St. Louis weather is tuckering to them that can't stand heat.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley
Presently, however, they slowed down to a "dog trot" at the suggestion of Clifford Long, who warned his fellow Scouts against "tuckering themselves out."
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
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