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Meanings of weary in English
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Examples for "wear"
Examples for "wear"
1
The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
2
Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
3
She asserts, quite trenchantly, her right to wear trousers on State occasions.
4
I wish people would wear them from a voluntary basis, she said.
5
Ultimately, of course, what you wear on your bike is personal choice.
1
She's noted that 'pandemic fatigue' is affecting many citizens at the moment.
2
Workers have voiced concerns that fatigue levels are putting safety at risk.
3
However, fatigue prevented four subjects from group P from completing the trial.
4
He said in recent media interviews that he had suffered from fatigue.
5
Multivariate regression methods were used to identify significant factors associated with fatigue.
1
Half an hour later, he reported for work at the tire plant.
2
Goodyear previously said it would discontinue consumer tire production at the plant.
3
Goodyear sold its North American farm tire business to Titan in 2005.
4
For instance, I am no longer permitted to change a punctured tire.
5
The result is a cacophony of engine noise, tire squeal, and numbers.
1
And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
2
Swiftly Peggy stooped and unfastened the little jade god from far-off China.
3
She had served the tin gods in temples of gold and jade.
4
The great giraffe seal of pink jade was also displayed to advantage.
5
Somewhere in the final issue, Lady Stardust should wear a jade dress.
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1
You know, in case TMZ is having a fag break or something.
2
It is late September at the fag end of the tourism season.
3
They said that the whole world would know he was a fag.
4
Albert dropped his fag and stood on it on the way in.
5
They smoked fag after fag, lighting the new ones on the butts.
1
A pair of gauntlets will outwear three or four pairs of gloves.
2
See, the organ-constricting, bone-crunching corset as an underwear-as-outwear look is NOT for everyone.
3
Such a worm gear will, I fancy, outwear a dozen of the scientific sort.
4
Insulated by thermal outwear and whiskey, Roe's isolated professor is tellingly exploring the void.
5
Same footwear rules as women apply and denim, tracksuits, leggings, casual outwear are also banned.
1
Archie grabbed a fag out of her packet and lit up.
2
Jack stubbed his fag out viciously against the table.
3
Jack fished another fag out of the pack.
4
Biddy, wait,-girlshave no innings-girlsonly fag out.
5
He must be exhausted, and as they say here, all fagged out.
1
He was without the helmet and body covering they wear upon the exterior.
2
The perversity of things, animate and inanimate, was beginning to wear upon him.
3
We often hear how our modern appliances wear upon our nerves.
4
But what means this scarf which you wear upon your shoulder?
5
The bodily exertion had begun to wear upon him during the last few minutes.
1
He must tire out the Frenchman in the end, he thought.
2
Most of these remakes tire out at the box office before they arrive.
3
For you won't tire out my patience, or break my heart.
4
The wrappings and trappings often tire out the hapless viewer before the main event.
5
I'd tire out all the judges and juries in London.
1
And so you wear out your eyesight in the working of chairs.
2
The toil was fitted to wear out the strongest of his men.
3
Running less than an hour, the film doesn't wear out its welcome.
4
Gee, but he does wear out the engines in his cars, Whitney.
5
So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to wear out some shoe leather.
1
The scores helped wear down the challenge of the relegation-threatened home team.
2
Given enough time, my battle cruisers can probably wear down that battleship.
3
After several minutes of kicking and scratching, she began to wear down.
4
They've adopted a guerrilla policy to try and wear down our fleet.
5
But time and change soon wear down these first fancies of youth.
Usage of weary in English
1
Factor in plenty of sea days: they're important for recharging weary batteries.
2
Even in strike-weary France, the work stoppage is affecting Euro Disney stock.
3
There was no respite for a weary looking London stock market yesterday.
4
The weary government keeps control from the centre of the vast city.
5
Not really horsemen, he decided, but tired men leading their weary animals.
6
The effect was that he looked weary, which was perhaps the case.
7
This is an important consideration for bailout-weary euro zone governments like Germany.
8
She never grew weary of hearing the latest political news or gossip.
9
A great weary sadness, as if he'd leapt abruptly forward in age.
10
Both were weary of the industry, yet recognised something within each other.
11
But now, I am weary; the pastime palls; you no longer amuse.
12
For the moment she was far too weary to improve her surroundings.
13
I am very weary; twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry.
14
I am weary of it; I am weary of the whole thing.
15
Even in his weak and weary state, Borenson saw it all clearly.
16
I believe this report will weary and bewilder people more than others.
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Translations for weary
Portuguese
Weary through the time
Weary across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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Ireland
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