Sentence examples for knackered for from inspiring English sources

She told GMTV: "I understand that we've spoken to her doctors and they really have reassured us that there are no underlying mental issues and it purely is just that she's knackered, for want of a better word".

You melt your wax in a bain-marie set-up, and the top pan – the one that holds the melted wax – will be completely knackered for the rest of its life.

It does have a knock-on effect because then you feel knackered for the rest of the day, and if you've woken up with that kind of feeling in your head and in yourself you just – I had a tendency just to sit in the corner in the chair.

"Or will it backfire like yesterday where Roche and Paulinho knackered themselves for nothing?

To the society page of the Daily Mail, if you can imagine a more amusingly knackered concept, for a glimpse of the class of guest one can expect in the good seats at the Olympics.

To the Sunday Telegraph, he said he would take the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani as an inspiration, and suggested that the post (which will have the power to sack and appoint the top police commander, or chief constable, and set strategic guidelines for the force) must not become "a talking shop for knackered old policemen or a sunset gig for some trough-loving councillor".

But has rock and pop music ever seemed so thoroughly knackered, so stumped for inspiration as it did in 2000?

People used to ask why Manchester United scored so many late goals, it was because they used to knacker teams for 85 minutes by keeping possession and wore them out.

It's important not to over-train on an off day because you can end up knackering yourself for your match, so it's really just a case of doing enough to keep your hand in and keep your body loose.

It's a spot for destination television; big, hearty, populist shows for people too knackered to start the weekend with anything even approaching a night out.

But there are progressive opportunities, and this certainly qualifies: a point at which a knackered economic model is revealed for all to see as eminently fit for replacement.