Sentence examples for work weary from inspiring English sources

They've raced over from work, weary kids trudging along beside them.

She talked about her parents coming home from work "weary and bone-tired" but still showing her and her siblings all that they could be.

We all get work-weary sometimes — and need a break for a minute or two.

The frazzled and the work-weary might be tempted to stay within the confines of Hibiscus House for the entirety of their stay.

(Isherwood) ★ 'Rx' Kate Fodor's play about an affair between a work-weary editor (Marin Hinkle) and a pharmaceutical researcher (Stephen Kunken) is an engaging blend of gentle satire on our overprescribed culture and classic romantic comedy.

They bring their picnic lunches and spread them out on the grass, their children ride bicycles down the lanes, and work-weary husbands, after their noon bottle of wine, sleep with newspapers over their faces.

ON a recent weekday evening, scores of work-weary people waited to check out materials at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library while, a few yards away, two self-service checkout machines stood idle.

Legend has it that five boys were left in their care one day, not an uncommon occurrence during a time when illness often claimed the lives of work-weary immigrant parents.

In the winter of 1867 a work-weary Charles Dickens arrived in Boston harbour, following a long sea voyage from England.

Another critic complained, "I don't want to eat this stuff". Work-weary moms may find these dinners attractive because they feature foods that they might feed their kids if they had the time.

Nor do the photographs include a human presence -- no intelligence agents at work, no weary visa applicants.