How To Use Careworn In A Sentence
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Stoical, careworn Paul looks after her and his younger brother.
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The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
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Tom, who stood by her, idly spinning the curtain tassel, followed the familiar figure with his eye, and seeing how gray the hair had grown, how careworn the florid face, and how like a weary old man his once strong, handsome father walked, he was smitten by a new pang of self-reproach, and with his usual impetuosity set about repairing the omission as soon as he discovered it.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
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Finding the ideal relationship is still Zedek's primary lyrical focus, and her emotively careworn voice remains the strongest aspect of her music.
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He does repent," she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.
Red Pottage
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However tired and careworn he looks - and he now mostly looks both - he performs well.
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Swallow looks tired and careworn and slightly seedy.
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This at least was Mara's voice, warm and careworn.
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He had a careworn face, moon-shaped and mournful; his attire was severe but did not quite fit.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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But Mr. Kubrick makes the coda work—with Mr. Krause's camera locking onto a host of careworn faces as beasts transform into men while listening to the girl's halting version of a sentimental ballad.
A Great Film's Sadly Timeless Message
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A careworn boy hag-ridden by his need for perfection knew release.
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Mulhearn attempted an ingratiating smile, which sat oddly on his careworn face.
STAGE FRIGHT
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I cannot convey to you who know him now -- with his careworn face and abrupt, dry manner, reduced by perpetual gladiatorship to the skin and bone of his former self -- what that man was when he first stepped into the arena of life.
The Caxtons — Complete
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He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still.
SUICIDE
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When you hear of her situation you think immediately of words like harassed and careworn but Jacqui confounds every expectation.
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His hair was white, but he seemed so full of life beneath his rough, careworn exterior.
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You look --" began Constance -- but "careworn" was a risky term and she stopped.
Kincaid's Battery
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Yes, I recognised a large percentage of the faces in the crowd as my former classmates, a little more careworn now than in junior high.
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I looked to the captain, who appeared young, careworn yet handsome in his uniform, and tired.
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One of them opened the door for Gideon, who entered a large conference room, where President Diggs was talking quietly to a plain but pleasant-faced man in his sixties with the jowly, careworn expression of a hound dog.
Gideon’s war
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“He does repent,” she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.
Red Pottage
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It's sad to see the careworn face of the mother of a large poor family.
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The slump of his shoulders and a bleak expression accentuated the careworn look in his eyes.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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The one she had addressed as "daughter" was a careworn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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A careworn boy hag-ridden by his need for perfection knew release.
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Yet, despite the careworn commonplaceness of her appearance, there was one respect in which she stood out from the ordinary: she had light grey eyes, a feature that was unusual in that part of the country.
Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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Or stretch her limbs and laugh at the careworn ways of her elders?
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In the shadowless white light, the priest looked pale and careworn, and his usually florid complexion seemed drained of colour.
GRACE
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Genta is careworn, beaten down by life, and no longer naïve enough to believe in Bushido, but he's not cynical.
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A rictus grin crumpled his careworn face; just another lost soul grimly drinking into the morning, pathetically clutching at the warmth of the false camaraderie of the night before.
Survived another workshop!
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The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
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The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
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As they approached, he noticed their anxious yet hopeful eyes in careworn faces.
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His dark hair was greying and his face was careworn and weary.
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Beside her stood a crowned man with grey hair, his face careworn.
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The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a peaceful smile upon his careworn face — asphyxiation.
The Minions of Midas
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The careworn look that Anil wore during the eight months of bitter battle had faded, and he was almost his usual self - brash, natty, and cheerful.
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They spoke in a careworn fashion that made me give up hope that music and art might make a difference to anything.
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Alongside skulls, bones and fruit he singles out careworn possessions, like a lone battered trainer or an acoustic guitar, and painstakingly chisels them in whole or in part in pale limewood.
The Guardian World News
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He was pale, but his careworn expression could not disguise the malice in his eyes.
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As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.
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Slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, he looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket.
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Her face was careworn with anxiety.
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looking careworn as she bent over her mending
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If we enter the nearest institution of Charity Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, or of the Poor, we cannot fail to remark the contrast between the healthful, cheery, unsolicitous countenances of the inmates, and the nervous, suffering, careworn faces of the wives and mothers in our midst.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
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In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
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In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
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Michael's grumpy, careworn mother, an uprooted representative of the old immigrant Baltimore, lives out her days with them and adds to the friction.
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His dark hair was greying and his face was careworn and weary.
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All the wealthy people were away for the weekend, and the rest of us hung around looking a little dishevelled and careworn.
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Though the Head Boy of our year still looks cherubic, if a little careworn.
President Kaczyński
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His poor mother had once been an exciting happy woman, but the years without her husband had deprived her of those lovely qualities, leaving her sad and careworn at age 39.
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Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly.