Sentence examples for Rather worn out from inspiring English sources

Hajiya Zaliya was given an insecticide treated net a few years ago but it has not been re-treated and is rather worn out - although it is still being used.

"I got to a stage where I just felt like I wasn't sure what I was doing, who I was, and was also, not surprisingly, feeling rather worn out," he says.

The United States is the official home team, and it should benefit from big crowds and its Major League Soccer-based players being in midseason form rather than worn out from the long European season.

And rather than being worn out by days of shoveling or trudging through nearly seven feet of snow, many people seemed invigorated by the ordeal.

Just as the term once used to describe victims of domestic violence as "battered wives" had a useful (to abusers) double meaning, suggesting someone worn out rather than beaten up, so child-hitters have their own special word: "smack" is designed to dissociate thumping a child from other forms of violence.

But rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting... 'What a ride!'".

When Spirit's wheels dug into the soil of a Martian area named Troy, NASA's rover teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, built a test bed to try out different maneuvers with a Spirit clone, rather than wearing out the real rover's aged parts on Mars.

It is said, for example, that pole vaulting "may have originated in the Netherlands, where people used long poles to vault over wide canals rather than wear out their clogs walking miles to the nearest bridge.

It allowed the addicted to risk their ankles rather than wearing out thumbs on a lengthy session though if anyone lasted more than five minutes on it, they'd have surely qualified for the US Olympic team's gymnastic squad for Barcelona 1992.

This helps to ensure even play, rather than wearing out a more popular section of the tape.

More conservative playing styles will involve less hard hits of the ball, seeking rather to wear out the opponent's stamina and focus.