Sentence examples for wearily from inspiring English sources

The word "wearily" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone feeling tired or exhausted from something. Example sentence: After hours of studying, I finished the exam wearily.

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wearily

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In a weary manner

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My strongest memory is of one early-evening phonecall: for at least three minutes, the voice at the other end insisted I was connected to the "Man of Mystery", and tied me in knots, before I swore in frustration, and Thorgerson wearily played it straight, wondering when the deadline was, and how the book was going.

Hugh Quarshie's long-suffering character has seen and suffered so much since he joined the soap in 2001 that he feels like the personification of the best of the NHS: wearily irritable, still just about hanging on despite 25 government-initiated reorganizations (I exaggerate, but not much), still good at his job and still trying to be selfless - against the odds.

This only works when your hangover is of the blearily, wearily, giddily euphoric kind – when you actively want to leave the house, rather than lying poleaxed in bed, trying not to puke – but, in those circumstances, this relatively light, easily digested combination of emollient fat and amino-acid-releasing carbs and protein, is the perfect palliative.

Smiling wearily and with heads bowed, the women were ushered into the airport hall before being taken to hospital for checks.

Instead the gleam faded, he sighed wearily and asked me to hail him a cab.

"Because there are so few strong women in literature (or TV shows or movies) the burden falls on the writers who do write about women to make them represent all of womanhood," writes Eliana Dockterman in a piece for Time (headlined, wearily, "Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist?).

'God is not sleeping,' he said, 'and justice must prevail.' 'Today, Trevor,' said an American boxing writer wearily, 'I'd believe anything.' But whose justice?

As the fans streamed to the exits, one couple were wearily packing their saltire flag into a backpack.

"Baby who?" said one of our number wearily.

He has an entertaining passage in which he wearily points out that the question of how to improve governance and commercial performance was first regarded as urgent in 1958 when Hugh Gaitskell led the Co-operative independent commission.

As she plumped herself wearily down on the doorstep to answer questions, that Nobel morning in 2007, she seemed to show an authentic, unbrushed side to the world's press.

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