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