Sentence examples for knackered by from inspiring English sources

The BBC Symphony often appear a bit knackered by the end of the summer.

It'll be a show for people crippled by hangovers, deadened by a week at the office and generally knackered by life.

Rather humanely, you suggest that the patriarchy must be knackered by now, and we'd be doing it a favour to give it a rest.

She seemed to be turning into Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak – the farm-owning milady and her sturdy farmer ally – at the same time... She's become a keen environmentalist, although she sounds a mite knackered by "the whole organic thing".

Was actually surplus to requirements in Dhaka when rested, a poor and disrespectful decision to the hosts – will he really be less knackered by the fifth Test in India, if he has played the other four?

After my early start, and a two-hour walk in search of one of Valencia's two free wireless internet "hot-spots", I was completely knackered by the time I had arranged to meet Jess, a Guardian reader, who had kindly offered to put me up for the night.

Do you want your kids taught by knackered sixtysomethings?

71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.

You look at the characters he's played and think he must come away so knackered and depressed by the end of the shoot.

Although "he would arrive in the morning completely knackered," Gilliam says, "by the end of the day he was beaming, glowing with energy.

It was especially great to see the excellent Vicky McClure given more to do – I loved it when she turned down Dot's advice to get away with the pragmatic response: "I'm too knackered to run" – and by the end I felt quite warmly towards DC now DS Fleming, dubious undercover skills and all.