How to Use harried in a Sentence

harried

adjective
  • My life was a crushing routine of harried days.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But to a harried parent, one less thing to worry about is always a good thing.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Why is any of this happening in person, rather than over harried texts?
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Heather sat in the car glued to a harried exchange of group texts and her doorbell camera.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Her harried mom works two jobs that can’t support the family.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This makes the school crossing guard role even more vital, and more harried, and riskier.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe harried workers no longer have the time or inclination to cook eggs at home.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
  • Clinton isn’t a harried soccer mom who has room for only one phone in her jacket pocket.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In a harried world, such attunement to detail might require a bit of practice.
    — Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This seems necessary since a harried motorist driving along does not have a lot of time to focus on those signs.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Work has been quick, a little harried, and focused on helping businesses just make it to the next day.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Behind the reception desk, two harried men juggled room keys and sheaves of paper.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Average would be a godsend to these two harried parents who are just doing their best-ish to raise their three kids.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The child’s harried voice had devolved into the word salad of the psychotic.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Martin, 52, is the harried face of this meek resistance.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • During their harried getaway, Rodriguez crashed the scooter a few blocks away.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • During their harried getaway, Rodriguez crashed the scooter a few blocks away.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • What does this mean for lawyers and judges in a harried setting trying to make or assess legal arguments?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Forget the endlessly snaking lines of tense, harried citizens with bad clothes and too much luggage.
    — David Wondrich, Esquire, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Berlin writes about harried and divorced single women, many of them in working-class jobs, with uncanny grace.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Cochran keeps things moving as Harriet, the harried chief of staff waiting for a big break that will never come.
    — EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024
  • And the final dance in the Ginastera sometimes felt more harried than exciting.
    — Dallas News, 8 June 2022
  • For the harried hostess, prep can occur in advance, leaving only assembly for the day of the event.
    — Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Others include a roaring homeless man, a puppeteer, and a harried mom who works in a garbage disposal plant.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 9 May 2017
  • What’s a harried person to do, when skin-care routines touted online often have 10+ steps?
    — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Sometimes, the love of young hearts, the moody glow of a sunset, and big, old trees to put it all in perspective are exactly what our harried souls need.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 1 June 2020
  • Klara is purchased for Josie, a sweet, sickly teenage girl who lives with her harried mother and a housekeeper outside the city.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But 17 months ago, Martinez and thousands of other harried commuters here received what felt like a gift from on high.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • This time, a harried Herbert fired incomplete on second-and-12.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Tennis great John McEnroe's outbursts grated on the nerves of many a harried umpire back in the day.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2017

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