How to Use weary in a Sentence

weary

1 of 2 adjective
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  • I need to rest my weary eyes.
  • The miners were weary after a long shift.
  • She was weary from years of housework.
  • But this comes from many weary hours of work and change.
    — Anna Jankowska, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The labors of love that pour forth are like water in the midst of a dry and weary land.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • One final trip down to the river to rest your weary bones.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Techloom Slides $120 at Amazon To rest his weary feet after the gym.
    — Gaby Keiderling, harpersbazaar.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Russians have grown weary of the war, which Putin denies is a war at all.
    — Anisha Kohli, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • By the end of the pageant run, weary and covered with mosquito bites, Berg was ready for a break.
    — Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In the whirlwind, so many are feeling frightened, weary, and alone.
    — Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps one of the greatest draws for weary road trippers?
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The move comes as Wall Street grows weary of expansion at any cost in the streaming space.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Those who were shopping in a village store seemed deeply weary.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • His world-weary characters could still get the girl, but the right one had long since gotten away.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Still, Smith pressed on with his plans, too weary of the stress and uncertainty of his job.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • By the penultimate cycle of the chorus, Swift sounds weary from the effort.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Still, on the 10th nationwide day of protests, some were growing weary.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The paper, owned by the Knight chain, needed reporters to relieve its weary staff.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • If the show—if any show—strikes someone, somewhere, for some reason, to the heart, well, so shines a good deed in a weary world.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The wide, sometimes sad, sometimes weary and emotionally full eyes, the hard lines of the faces, the clear weight of their lives.
    — Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Sawyer had just finished working and greeted me with a weary smile.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Continuing his walk, a weary Red spotted a bull in the wild.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • Time changes, flight plans and four-overtime games should have left a team that’s not very deep to begin with road weary.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Obviously it’s been a killer for us with the travel and games and things of that nature, so no rest for the weary.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The country also was weary from a decade of fighting over civil rights.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The soldiers were back before dawn, unloading on the same beach, cold, weary and with few words.
    — Carlotta Gall Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The snowstorm will bypass snow-weary portions of the northern Plains, which was buried by a blizzard last week.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Workers in the two largest economies—United States and China—are growing weary.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • How does zero light pollution sound to your city-weary eyes?
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Beaster-Jones is weary about whether this trend will have any real impact on the users doing it.
    — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2022
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weary

2 of 2 verb
  • The work wearies me sometimes.
  • Southgate seemed wearied even by the prospect of a game that means next to nothing.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • His office hours allow him to miss the worst of the Bay Area’s wearying traffic.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • How would 6% be for a start Several pages of this is charming; forty years’ worth would have been wearying.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The larger meaning of the cross, when carried near the worn and wearied Chavez hobbling along with the help of a cane, was not at all lost on farmworkers.
    — Lloyd Daniel Barba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • All of this action can be wearying for even the most committed voter.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 June 2019
  • With the home crowd roaring them on, and with the Warriors wearying, the Raptors finally overcame.
    — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • Staying Focused on the Work The taunting letters, social media posts, and phone calls can be wearying, but the staff just finds new ways to keep getting the work done.
    — Sophia Jones, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Some have interpreted this as a sign that China’s central bank has wearied of the yuan’s recent surge.
    — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Others face eviction threats from landlords who have wearied of the police showing up.
    — Anne Deprince, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Winters can be wearying, but a warm voice advocating for joy can make all the difference.
    — Chris Stedman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Jonas Kaufmann is Tristan, subject to the tenor’s wearying tendency to cancel.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Notably, there’s very, very little in the way of wearying sarcasm or self-referential clutter here.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Magic simply can’t expect their wearied and worn-down fan base to endure another five years of awfulness.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 June 2017
  • While an understandable choice, the approach becomes wearying: A few more notes of sincerity would have better served the play.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Trying to round the Horn, the Wager ran into a series of storms, relentless onslaughts of gale-force winds, waves and rain in frigid temperatures that damaged ships and wearied men.
    — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Unique pressures If the occasional flight is wearying, imagine the exhaustion of doing it for a living.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Jurors had endured a wearying six-week trial and testimony from 76 witnesses — for which they were paid just $20 a day.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The most tasteful front-yard fence was never an agreeable object of study to me; the most elaborate ornaments, acorn-tops, or what not, soon wearied and disgusted me.
    — Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • In my own reading experience, a book set entirely in (say) Helvetica is fine for a couple of pages but then becomes wearying to the eye.
    — Curbed, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There are signs that San Franciscans, once eager to download the latest app and try the latest gadget, are wearying of their role as Silicon Valley’s lab rats.
    — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2018
  • Chekhov, whose plays hardly seem to coerce life at all, boldly broke ranks with this wearying regimentation.
    — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • Mahoney specialized in playing these kinds of upbeat but disillusioned men, wearied by an unkind world but struggling to do the right thing.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Formerly reputable Republicans are wearying of the strange defenses they have felt bound to invent for him.
    — Robert Dallek, The Hive, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Spoiler alert: at the end of the movie, almost everyone’s kicked the bucket, leaving Jack Nicholson’s wearied gumshoe to ponder the bleak lesson that power stays with those in power and nothing really changes.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Meanwhile, casualty-averse Russian voters are wearying of the war.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Freedom from responsibility, after all, is the fantasy of a world-wearied adult, not of a teenager, who longs for nothing more than to be trusted to make decisions for herself.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • But the endless revelations that have emerged since October about abusive men in the entertainment industry and beyond have felt wearying in their range and detail.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some of those former tenants have opened in locations spanning from Florida Mall to Oviedo, both bolstered and wearied by their experiences at Artegon.
    — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • What’s remarkable is that Flanagan, thanks largely to stellar performances from the ensemble, manages to make all this sibling drama feel suspenseful rather than wearying.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018

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