How to Use weary in a Sentence

weary

1 of 2 adjective
  • I need to rest my weary eyes.
  • The miners were weary after a long shift.
  • She was weary from years of housework.
  • Rest your weary arms for a bit.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
  • A little repast for the news-weary.
    — Brooke Greenberg, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Something weary about his body too.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Rest is for the weary, with long days fueled by cafecito.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That’s three plums lined up like weary soldiers at reveille by my count.
    — David Weiss, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • So weary that the kids are going analog.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Those who were shopping in a village store seemed deeply weary.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 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
  • Sleep retreats are, indeed, for the weary.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The public grew weary and confused.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Sawyer had just finished working and greeted me with a weary smile.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And if your legs get weary, ask a local for their favorite nearby hot spring.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And if your legs get weary, ask a local for their favorite nearby hot spring.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2026
  • Russians have grown weary of the war, which Putin denies is a war at all.
    — Anisha Kohli, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Many locals, though, are somewhat weary of their plucky image.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In the whirlwind, so many are feeling frightened, weary, and alone.
    — Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • How hidden in his face his features were, tired, weary, yet a self showing through.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Rhys, who was joining us, showed up first, a bit weary after a week of shooting his new show.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Parents were weary to send their children across town amidst chaos, and some teachers left their posts.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The country also was weary from a decade of fighting over civil rights.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 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
  • Um, so weary she was photographed all over New York wearing his clothes?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • After all, flowering plants are just what your winter-weary soul needs this time of year.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Messengers, all of us, speaking the word God left us in this weary land.
    — Ashley M. Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no rest for the weary, and Mendoza and the rest of the Mets are very, very weary.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
  • Annie is battle weary this season.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026

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
  • Maybe the modest size of tonight’s group wearied Nina.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • All of this action can be wearying for even the most committed voter.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 June 2019
  • Others face eviction threats from landlords who have wearied of the police showing up.
    — Anne Deprince, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Winters can be wearying, but a warm voice advocating for joy can make all the difference.
    — Chris Stedman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • With the home crowd roaring them on, and with the Warriors wearying, the Raptors finally overcame.
    — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • And then, with wearying inevitability, the Premier League would follow suit.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, casualty-averse Russian voters are wearying of the war.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Jonas Kaufmann is Tristan, subject to the tenor’s wearying tendency to cancel.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Unique pressures If the occasional flight is wearying, imagine the exhaustion of doing it for a living.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jurors had endured a wearying six-week trial and testimony from 76 witnesses — for which they were paid just $20 a day.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Copper, granite, concrete and marble are slaking people’s thirst for interiors that don’t look like wearying generic condos.
    — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • Bram, his husband, has a demanding job at a museum in Rotterdam and Arnold’s bitterness has grown wearying.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Following that important thread through the next two hours was wearying, particularly once it was subsumed under questions about bathrooms.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The same deplorable determinists and maligned enlightened heroes pop up with wearying frequency.
    — Richard Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Yet the movie’s rare skirmishes feel authentically battle-wearied and handicapped by conscience.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • In practice the constant embellishment and novelty can be wearying, especially at series length.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Even for those spared personal catastrophe, the broader atmosphere has been wearying; institutions strained, norms eroded, tempers short.
    — Phillip Halpern, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026

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