weary
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“We’ve talked to everyone we can,” Al-Drimly said, his voice weary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The road is long and weary, filled with detours and extended stops.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The presiding assumption is that generative AI can put a little more science into the art of matchmaking and offer a streamlined option to a dating pool that has grown weary of swiping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
When we stepped apart, she quickly ducked her head, but not before I saw the weary pain in her brown eyes.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
As time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.
From BBC ● May 25, 2023
Kyrgios took the final two sets in 74 minutes while Medvedev looked wearier with every point.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2022
Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows ever wearier of pandemic-related restrictions.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
The motel I had booked looked wearier than ecstatic reviews of vintage Americana had led me to believe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Dumbledore sighed again, and he looked older, and wearier, than ever.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
That it happens this way every year, offering an annual day of hope to even the weariest baseball cities, remains somehow powerful.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
With what had to be the weariest left hand in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed the last of nearly 1,000 bills he approved this year.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
The sun has barely set on a roaring summer concert season and a busy fall slate ensures there will be no rest for even the weariest local music fans.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
The under-fire Steve Bruce must have met news of Ronaldo’s return with the weariest of sighs.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2021
Do I take both before dinner, which is usually about 7:30, leaving an unbroken two-and-a-half-hour stretch when I’m weariest, between 8:30 and 11:00?
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
But numerous media reports suggest that he has been marginalised as Trump wearies of being controlled and seeks to cut loose.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2018
“Joy wearies me, and I hate happiness when I catch a glimpse of it in a human expression,” he told Newsweek in 1963.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017
A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the technical difficulty of writing almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett rarely wearies or falters.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not impress me as being the face of a frivolous woman, a coquette, a court butterfly; but rather that of one who is always playing a part which sometimes wearies.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
This was not something you could have accused her of over the summer, and was perhaps a sign of a body and mind wearied by nine months on the road.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
Although the Diocese of Orange doesn’t keep demographic figures on its congregants, the Knights of Peter Claver leaders shook their heads with wearied smiles about how few Black Catholics they’ve met at their own parishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
My eyes have felt similarly as of late, wearied and underlined by dark circles after all their hours spent desperately seeking something exquisite.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
She recounted to The Washington Post in 2011 how she had already wearied of the rigors of the road before her first stroke.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
"I felt tired and wearied by the heat,” he explained later, "so nothing was done about it then.”
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
At first it was staggering, the boom, boom, boom, watching both players crack heavy serve after heavy serve, but it started to become a little wearying, like watching an extended game of Whac-A-Mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It's a wearying cycle of failure from a team that's still stymied by its own weak psychology.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
The cutesy performance shtick around a shoestring variety show — imagine Pee-wee’s Playhouse without the bewitching oddity — grows wearying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
That’s not to say that “Our Little Secret” isn’t enjoyable all on its own, only that it’s become wearying to watch Lohan confined to the limits of a holiday movie made for a streamer.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
A long and wearying thing in which I’m trying to get to District 12.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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