Sentence examples for knackered like from inspiring English sources

Battered, grimy and knackered like proper veterans, we curse the support trucks that cheekily use the race course as a short cut, blasting through their dust without lifting, tooting our siren, flashing our massive light packs.

"You can see by the boys' faces that everybody is properly knackered, everyone looks like they have been working, but I like it for that - it's real".

The sense of wanting to actually do a day's work and then get to bed knackered, to feel like you've earned your time off.

Bad news for Iivo Niskanen, though – not only did he end the race so knackered he looked like this, he then saw Sweden's Daniel Richardsson finish just two tenths of a second faster to nip into bronze medal position.

12. "I'm knackered" Exhausted sounds like you've collapsed.

His voice is not great - he sounds like a knackered Rod Stewart - but he invests the number with genuine emotion.

Marcus Collins, despite his energy and stage presence, seemed unable to get through any song without whooping like a knackered ambulance.

Sheer cockeyed, cockney miserabilism with a budget beat, the song also features the immortal line, "Bury me outside like a knackered stallion".

So says the middle-aged presenter with the stern expression, fighting in vain like a knackered Luddite to hold back the tide of technological advancement.

Kidulthood's Jaime Winstone is terrific casting as Ellen's neglectful mum, looking more like her knackered big sister than a parent.

We Exist sounds like a knackered Metronomy: drab, tuneless and dragging on needlessly towards the six-minute mark because someone's told them that's what dance records do.