The phrase "a tired one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or thing that is fatigued or weary, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "After a long day at work, I felt like a tired one, ready to collapse on the couch."
Alternatives: "an exhausted individual" or "a weary soul."
It's an old question, but this week it doesn't feel like a tired one, not when you hear Senator Lugar, on CNN Sunday morning, suggest that we "put aside the health care debate until next year," because "the war is terribly important".
The game is a tired one, and shows no sign of ending.
While Mercer Kitchen feels like a cynical enterprise, the Thai-French trailblazer Vong merely feels like a tired one.
It's an old country now and sometimes a tired one, a place where experience has shaded into exhaustion.
This may have been an effective model, and in some settings still is, but it's also a tired one that ignores the many ways women can and do rise to power.
WALKING a dog is a trademark suburban activity, a chance to inhale the freshness of a new day or put a tired one to sleep with a loyal companion alertly tagging and wagging along down tree-shaded lanes.
Almost the entire first act is a rambling monologue by Beatrice, and Ms. Madden delivers it in a tired one-note recital whose lethargy becomes infectious.
Now, this is not an analysis or an insight; it is a cliche, and a very tired one, and it often comes in the same package as the insistence that there is no difference between the candidates.
Now, this is not an analysis or an insight; it is a cliché, and a very tired one, and it often comes in the same package as the insistence that there is no difference between the candidates.
There is an argument, an increasingly tired one, that if she is not careful, she will die when a Republican is in office — and then who knows who will take her spot on the bench.
The fresh-versus-dried pasta debate is an old and tired one and, in the end, pointless.
