WEARINESS in a Sentence

Learn WEARINESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
223 example sentences for WEARINESS, such as:
1. Even speech was a labor and a weariness.
2. She succumbed to weariness and went to bed.
3. I've grown rather weary of all your excuses.
4. His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
5. I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WEARINESS
weariness
 n.  temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His body and brain ached with indescribable weariness, and he could think of nothing to say or to do that should arrest the mad flight of the moments.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  Scarlett caught sight of Phil Meade and hardly recognized him, so black was his face with powder and grime, so taut with strain and weariness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  She put her hand on his arm and felt that it was trembling with weariness but there was no weakness in his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Long lines of soldiers were passing, dust covered, sodden with weariness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Then, as she started back toward the driver's seat, a vast weariness assailed her and she swayed dizzily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Queer that she should feel nothing now, nothing except a weariness that shackled her limbs with heavy iron chains and a hunger that made her knees tremble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her complete weariness, until her mother took a cotton stalk to her and whipped her until she screamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Something of her exasperated weariness seemed to penetrate his mind, calling it back from its wanderings, for he raised her hands with tenderness and, turning them palm up, looked at the calluses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Heartbreak and weariness sweeping over her, she dropped her head in her hands and cried.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Even speech was a labor and a weariness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  But he looked bright and cheerful, in contrast with the lines of sorrow and worry and weariness which Scarlett saw in faces everywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Her heart was suddenly dull with pain, with weariness, as she thought of the long road she had come since those days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  She succumbed to weariness and went to bed.
2  His cheerful joke made us forget our weariness.
3  I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
4  His brain will wilt from hitherto unprecedented weariness.
5  I have spoken with numerous prisoners, and they have expressed that a feeling of dissatisfaction and weariness is gradually displaying in the Southern Army.”
6  Dressed in a sport jacket and jeans, Louis Vartan stood with his arms crossed and an expression of weary horror on his face.
7  They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.
8  The Charlatan claimed that his elixir would rejuvenate the aged and weary.
9  I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.
10  He appeared to be weary of his troubles and his love, - in short, disgusted with life.
11  I've grown rather weary of all your excuses.
12  I think he's a little weary after his long journey.
13  Mary wouldn't admit how much the children wearied her.