How to Use tired in a Sentence

tired

adjective
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  • The children were tired after the hike.
  • She's too tired to go out tonight.
  • We had to listen to the same old tired excuses again.
  • I was really tired after the long trip.
  • The teen was hot and tired and asked to stop on the way home for a slushy.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • And of course, a world that has kind of grown tired of all of this.
    — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • By the time the two arrived in Orkney, both were tired.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 31 May 2022
  • The two of them had clear, bright eyes in spite of their tired faces.
    — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The last of the tired frigates will likely serve until 2040.
    — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Austin's gonna be very tired at the end of the week, but his work on our field is just so nice.
    — Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2023
  • One of them got tired of the tilt, pulled out a roll of duct tape, and—kid you not—taped his head to the wall.
    — Patty Hodapp, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Around noon, dozens of men with matted beards and tired eyes lined up at the front.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Even if Macaulay Culkin is just an adult now, too tired to run an Airbnb.
    — Erin Somers, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Gone are fine lines, wrinkles, and tired and dry skin days.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
  • Pushed to her breaking point, Harleen is tired of playing by the rules.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Kansas seemed to hit a wall with fatigue and tired legs.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes the best gifts for friends are tired and true classics.
    — Nicola Fumo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • His eyes are kind but tired, his navy blue shirt a canvas of black grease.
    — Emily Zebel, Longreads, 23 May 2024
  • Then in the deep stretch, the horse started to veer to the inside, a sign sometimes of being tired.
    — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
  • One thing is for sure—we'll never get tired of white kitchens.
    — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 10 May 2023
  • His eyes speak a thousand words like those of the ones tired of having lost too much.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Other actors were not so used to it, and would get tired.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The pair sing about a girl who’s tired of love and is now enjoying her single life to the fullest.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 May 2022
  • Well, the Giants are tired of having to answer that one.
    — Mark Long, ajc, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Yoshida rejoined the Sox a day later, tired but ready to get back to work.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Next to her sits a fifth-grade girl who is tired of looking at the library’s brown and bare shelves.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Astronomers got tired of watching the moon go around the earth every 24 hours.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Free up a little room on the rack, and get ready to banish the tired-of-your-wardrobe feeling once and for all.
    — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
  • When that trade got tired and overdone, the broader market suffered.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025
  • After a while, though, the child who began baking alongside her mother at age 3, grew tired of watching so many grownups.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025

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