Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
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Examples for "tired "
Examples for "tired "
1 Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
2 In All-Ireland final week, you don't be long growing tired of words.
3 I'm tired of people saying 'I don't know if that is true'.
4 I am tired , in the heart, in the mind, in the body.
5 But the four-bedroom house is tired and in need of much work.
1 Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2 But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3 Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace .
4 But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace .
5 The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
1 In spite of the threadbare phrases, genuine pain vibrated in her tone.
2 The World Trade Center attack was a threadbare operation in many respects.
3 In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare .
4 Halfway across the threadbare lawn, a croaking voice erupted from the house.
5 Then to give the following, and cease before the thought gets threadbare :
1 The trite truth of the ratio between approach and enchantment amused him.
2 Nor does the trite epigram touch the surface of the real mystery.
3 Books could be written of the truth of this particular trite saying.
4 It's trite to say, but I'll say it anyway: This is revolutionary.
5 The rest took place with the trite rapidity of the equatorial latitudes.
1 But do we really need the banal content of the average tweet?
2 One reality is benign and banal ; the other is invigorating and lethal.
3 However, most importantly, we have confused the public with these banal comparisons!
4 The democratic process does not discriminate between the banal and the dramatic.
5 This fact was not banal at all, but unprecedented, shocking, and wrong.
1 It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
2 In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed .
3 This is a hackneyed , age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over.
4 The hackneyed words burned again with the freshness of their primal enthusiasm.
5 We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out.
1 Although quite clichéd , no two days are the same at the galleries.
2 I try not to repeat historical spaces as that can become clichéd .
3 A clichéd response to a husband's infidelity, yes, but oh so satisfying.
4 It sounded as clichéd in French as it would have in English.
5 They should leave their clichéd rhetoric and male-bashing propaganda at home.
1 Their escorts in varied suits of timeworn finery, the prisoners in rags.
2 Like all the others, it was completely intact, if a little timeworn .
3 That was another timeworn statement, but it served its purpose admirably.
4 Soon, Fred was busy deploying that timeworn bureaucratic weapon, the memo.
5 She crashed down onto the timeworn concrete floor, grazing her hands and wrists.
1 His tone changed, became less puckish; he elegized diversity with a shopworn .
2 There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor.
3 Instead, he attacked Obama's healthcare law with shopworn Republican campaign themes.
4 Chuckling owners trade these quips, each as shopworn as the tools scattered about.
5 They age badly for one thing and quickly look shopworn .
1 The activities of women in the church usually follow along well - worn paths.
2 DINING:Looking for some alternatives to the well - worn staples of the Christmas-Day table?
3 In order to reach Switzerland, the tourist has many well - worn routes available.
4 J.J. closed his rule book, slipped it in his well - worn calfskin briefcase.
5 I have to take little steps and to keep in well - worn paths.
1 It may seem weird to pour so much money into old - hat tech.
1 And Jove answered, My child, Trito -born , take heart.
2 Tritos only has what we've given him.
3 Tritos was still under the barn.
4 Tritos is our experiment.
5 Tritos ' usual smile dampened somewhat as he answered, "My father is dead and I have not seen my mother in some time."
6 Jove smiled at her and answered, "Take heart, my child, Trito -born ; I am not really in earnest, and I wish to be kind to you."
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