How to Use sick and tired in a Sentence

sick and tired

adjective
  • The black and poor there were sick and tired of being over-policed.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 14 June 2020
  • Other ideas came about because one person saw a need, was sick and tired, and wanted to make a change.
    — jsonline.com, 25 June 2020
  • There’s hope on the horizon for those sick and tired of Alabama’s extreme cold snap.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But consumers are growing sick and tired of searching for games, only to reach for their wallets.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There’s nothing wrong with a big-league ballplayer getting sick and tired of being drilled over and over and over by the same team.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The American people are sick and tired of mediocrity.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • Charile Mae Holcomb is sick and tired of seeing sewage in her backyard.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, animals are also rising up and are getting sick and tired of humans going against them.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 19 June 2019
  • The President seemed genuinely sick and tired of the endless pleas for just a little more time.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Utica is sick and tired of acquiescing to the needs of the other queens at the expense of her performance.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • People are so sick and tired of how much cable companies have been charging for pay TV all these years.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The American people are sick and tired of this endless debt increasing.
    — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Growing sick and tired — as my mom and grandmom would say — of the bulls--- and giving false equivalence to the bigotry, lies and hatred.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • If taken at face value, some members are sick and tired of working and don’t have any interest in finding a new job anytime soon.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Let your carrier handle it Wireless carriers are sick and tired of robocalls, too.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
  • People are sick and tired of working in dead-end jobs, suffering with too-demanding bosses, low wages and shabby treatment.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The in-office people, sick and tired of Zoom calls, won’t be too enthused to lose the momentum and try to find the others who should be on the call.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Many young people in Cuba are sick and tired of the dictatorship — even more sick and tired, possibly, than the old people are.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 June 2022
  • Front-line restaurant, bar, hotel and service industry workers are sick and tired of being overworked and underpaid.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • People are a little bit sick and tired of being sick and tired, to quote the great civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • The pandemic played an outsized role, as did school closings, and people just being sick and tired of the virus and blaming Joe Biden for it.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • By the time May 2014 rolled around, Bradon's mom's car was on its last legs, and Bradon was sick and tired of worrying.
    — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There are some elements of the Michigan fan base that are sick and tired of hearing about Harbaugh for the 352 non-game days of the year.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2017
  • People, especially older people, often feel symptoms of depression in their bodies — feeling sick and tired rather than sad.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Minnesota Twins third baseman Josh Donaldson is sick and tired of seeing the blatant cheating.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • For counterinsurgents as for insurgents, the cooperation of the people was everything, and there, the people were sick and tired of both.
    — Wesley Morgan, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • And victims of an entire system that protected the rich, powerful elites, and that's what Americans are absolutely sick and tired of.
    — NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Many of us have grown tired of being sick and tired of how we are presented in Hollywood movies because the depictions often give the impression that Africans are backward.
    — Chika Oduah, The Root, 20 Feb. 2018
  • This column is a public-service announcement to all of you college football fans who are sick and tired of seeing the Southeastern Conference dominate your sport.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Fans and other artists soon began rallying around her, illustrating how sick and tired many people of dealing with homophobic tirades and close-minded crybabies — a hopeful sign that the genre is evolving.
    — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022

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