WEARY in a Sentence

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Dressed in a sport jacket and jeans, Louis Vartan stood with his arms crossed and an expression of weary horror on his face.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEARY
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weary
 a.  tired; exhausted; physically or mentally fatigued
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
3  Even as they passed, a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke the echoes in the silent gorges, and startled the weary horses into a gallop.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  For five days he toiled footsore and weary through the defiles which he had already traversed on horseback.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  They had won, but they were weary and bleeding.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  For it was to be seen with half an eye that he was a thorough gentleman, made to the model of the time; weary of everything, and putting no more faith in anything than Lucifer.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
7  A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  it was a warm word to use for that great, weary warren.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  The crumple of her waist at the back, as she bent back to look, was a little weary; and it used to be so gay-looking.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  It was very bad for him to get into these rages: Mrs Bolton had a weary time with him, for days after.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  But what a weary, tired, worn-out sensuality.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  Their father took them to the exhibition, miles and miles of weary paintings.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  I have looked across the ha-ha till I am weary.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Everybody was growing weary of indecision, and the first idea with everybody was, that nothing had been proposed before so likely to suit them all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  But he was sick and weary; and he soon fell sound asleep.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Dressed in a sport jacket and jeans, Louis Vartan stood with his arms crossed and an expression of weary horror on his face.
2  They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.
3  The Charlatan claimed that his elixir would rejuvenate the aged and weary.
4  I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.
5  He appeared to be weary of his troubles and his love, - in short, disgusted with life.
6  I've grown rather weary of all your excuses.
7  I think he's a little weary after his long journey.
8  She succumbed to weariness and went to bed.
9  His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
10  I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
11  His brain will wilt from hitherto unprecedented weariness.
12  I have spoken with numerous prisoners, and they have expressed that a feeling of dissatisfaction and weariness is gradually displaying in the Southern Army.”
13  Mary wouldn't admit how much the children wearied her.