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How to use wearily in a sentence

14 example sentences · adverb

Wearily means in a weary manner; feeling weary. Example: “He trod back and forth wearily.”

Examples of wearily by meaning

adverbIn a weary manner; feeling weary.

  • "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 137
  • People living in the Portishead area have grown wearily familiar with delays and cost overruns since reopening the railway (part of the MetroWest project) was approved in 2012.2022 November 30, Andrew Mourant, “Network News: Award of DCO offers major boost to Portishead hops”, in RAIL, number 971, page 26

More sentences with wearily

  • He trod back and forth wearily.From the entry tread
  • Hazel sank wearily into her chair and sipped the milk unhungrily.2019 Descember, Grace Livingston Hill, Finding Love in Wild West: 3 Western Romance Novels, Musaicum Books. From the entry unhungrily
  • Wearily, he cancels the order and orders the ships back into line-ahead formation instead.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry line abreast
  • “Orphism,” he writes wearily, italicizing the word for effect, “and now we speak of Orphism.2014, Gordon Hughes, quoting Max Goth, Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism, University of Chicago…. From the entry Orphism
  • "You can't reform ODOT," he says wearily, "you can only drive a stake through its heart."1999, Fred Siegel, Urban Society, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry drive a stake through its heart
  • His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry volubility
  • She shook her head wearily, the guilt eating her alive.2006, Lora Leigh, Megan's Mark, Berkley Sensation, published 2006, →ISBN. From the entry eat someone alive
  • "We don't liketa go ta the nursewy," said Bonnie wearily.1981, Grace Livingston Hill, Brentwood. From the entry wubbers
  • “Why don’t you become a Baptist preacher?” she interrupted wearily.1956 September, Laura Beheler, chapter 16, in The Paper Dolls, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside…. From the entry boring
  • On a bench near the wall, Ion Hurdubet and Petrea Nucu were waiting for their wives: Ion's eyelids were blinkling wearily.1955, Remus Luca, Ana Nucu. From the entry blinkle
  • The boys blocked up the front wheels, drained what petrol was left into a five-gallon can, took their frogs and went wearily home to the Palace Flophouse.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. From the entry block up
  • Two days after the first U.S. bridgehead had been thrown back at Rapido (see p. 23), a U.S. carrier pigeon winged wearily into its home base in Italy.1944 February 7, “World Battlefronts: Men at War—The Bird”, in Time. From the entry carrier pigeon

Meaning of wearily

  1. adverb In a weary manner; feeling weary.
  2. adverb In a weary manner; causing weariness.

Full definition of wearily

Questions about wearily in a sentence

How do you use wearily in a sentence?
Wearily is used as an adverb. For example: “He trod back and forth wearily.”
What is a short sentence with wearily?
“He trod back and forth wearily.”
What does wearily mean?
Wearily means in a weary manner; feeling weary.

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