How To Use Knackered In A Sentence
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Well I can ask the same question on my knackered old gas cooker.
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Celebrate that space bloke fixing his knackered old shuttle by playing the Solar Games.
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I had to have a little snooze this afternoon as I was completely knackered.
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After 48 hours on the road, I'm knackered.
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She was sitting at the foot of the sofa watching TV, obviously knackered, whilst Dom played with his fire engine.
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Or maybe the electronic engine control unit is knackered.
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We were knackered by the time got back ... but on the way we went via the "crookedest" street that just winds up and down ... its at the end of the road our hotels on ...
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In fact it was rigged with what looked suspiciously like 10 year old and totally knackered Oxford gear!
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He walks off the pitch looking absolutely knackered.
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And now I'm knackered and going to lie down on the bed, squish my new do with my headset and yak to Walker until it's time for work.
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A year and a half of job-hunting has rather knackered my confidence, but I reckon I can fake it till I make it.
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I am knackered today, and think I need an early night tonight!
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The last week or so has been such a whirl; I've either been rushing about doing stuff, else I've been flaked out knackered from the rushing!
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When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree.
How I became a lepidopterist
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I'm knackered already because of a poor night's sleep and there will be little opportunity to catch up during the week.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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Britain is full of knackered working parents who need childcare centres.
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OK, I've typed far too much already, I'm knackered, and I can only hope I've spotted all my typos.
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Basically, anything above a brisk, short stroll and I'm knackered.
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Hence I am now knackered and about to head off to dreamland.
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She wanted something "reliable, good value and not as embarrassing as my knackered old Nissan Micra".
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I'll be knackered by teatime. I'll need a drink and a nice line or two of charlie.
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And now I'm back I'm fit for nowt - completely knackered.
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He spoke rather vaguely of contacts with directors of rugby to try to obtain time out for the knackered, now and again.
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The drink and the drugs have basically knackered my life.
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But my battery was knackered, and in the weak, red glow of the rear lights I couldn't really see anything properly.
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It was during that festival that she teamed up with the great bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie - pictured here, looking knackered but resplendent in his newly acquired tartan trousers - at the Central Hotel.
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You can see it, though, can't you: there's nothing so pathetic and washed up as a really knackered old shoe.
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It outguessed my every manoeuvre on the sandy bottom, and I ended the dive knackered, without one image of its huge iridescent blue pectoral fins splayed like a splendid fan to show for my efforts.
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When I work a 12 hour day, without a break, like today, the last thing I want to find at the end of it is that my bloody phone handset is knackered.
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Knackered already, one tarted oneself up and headed off to Blackheath to meet Chris and his girlfriend.
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Felt bloody awful when I finished - too knackered to feel properly pleased!
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I was absolutely knackered at the end of the match.
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I'm too knackered to type more, as I haven't had any decent sleep for 72 hours.
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The teaching job really knackered my confidence.
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This was a really great day's walking, I'm knackered now, I've done about 19 miles.
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Anybody too knackered to lift a cup of tea to parched lips can have it intravenously.
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The problem was that we were knackered by the time Saturday came round.
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My shoulders ache, I'm knackered already and I don't feel like doing any work.
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Indeed, he's knackered and at times seems world-weary.
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We have been told so often that Scottish football is knackered that we have come to believe it.
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I love that last piccy – knackered with a certain – deserved – smugness [and you don't have many opportunities to say that]
The big day
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And after last night's shenanigans I'm absolutely knackered.
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My tape player's knackered.
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By now the previous day had caught up with me and I was pretty knackered, and then there was the drive home.
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A quick note to self - being knackered enough to end up asleep on the sofa all night is not a good thing.
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By Sunday arvo I was knackered from all the excitement.
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I was knackered last night so I went to bed relatively early for me.
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A few days later, I decided out of curiosity to see whether the old vcr is still knackered.
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Was slightly shocked that after digging over the vegetable patch (about the size of a small bedroom) I was utterly knackered and in pain for days.
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I am absolutely knackered, and I suppose I should write this; mind you it's quarter to ten!
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It's cold, everybody's wearing cheap waterproofs or knackered jumpers, most people have an expression halfway between habitual wiliness and gutted defeat.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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After the climb we were absolutely knackered, if you'll pardon the expression.
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It took me a while to admit I was knackered.
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I was absolutely knackered at the end of the match.
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Today I just took an hour for lunch plus a cuppa tea in the afternoon and had done my six hours by 4.30, meaning I could have a little snooze before dinner and not feel too knackered this evening.
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I had to have a little snooze this afternoon as I was completely knackered.
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No wonder his knee is knackered when you look at the number of overs he has bowled.
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The least likely recruit was perhaps Andy, who met us at Central Station looking, frankly, knackered.
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If one pulls the other way, the whole thing is knackered. "
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The water pump was knackered by a poorly replaced timing chain (I think).
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You are constantly jet-lagged, knackered or hung-over.
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By the time I got home I was knackered.
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I had every intention of arriving early and leaving early as it was a ‘school night’ and I was knackered after quite a few late nights at work.
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Suddenly it's Thursday, which is the end of my working week, and I'm knackered.
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After the climb we were absolutely knackered, if you'll pardon the expression.
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If his knee injury hasn't knackered him completely there is no need to suppose he won't be as prolific as before.
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We have been told so often that Scottish football is knackered that we have come to believe it.
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A better day could not have been had and although it was still early I was knackered.
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I was completely knackered on arrival, suggesting that walking the complete trail from 100 to 1 might be overdoing it somewhat.
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Pitt, meanwhile, comes across as a bit of a knackered lunk, too vanilla for his struggles to grip in the same way as, say, those of Michael Sheen's Brian Clough in The Damned United – a film with a similar real-life sporting triumph template.
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The cycle ride home was against a very strong, blustery wind and left me feeling knackered.
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Funnily enough, 68 years on, that equipment is knackered.
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I knackered my ankle playing football.
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Last night I ran an iPod software update and it knackered my iPod up.
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After the climb we were absolutely knackered, if you'll pardon the expression.
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It's safe to say this weekend has really knackered me out.
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Near midnight, a couple of friends of hers came over and wanted us all to go out, but since I was knackered, I declined.
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Certainly for today at least, the Labour campaign is knackered.
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I still had to get up early for work in the morning… which is why I feel absolutely knackered now.
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By this time I had added sunstroke and dehydration to being absolutely knackered.
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I was absolutely knackered at the end of the match.
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They're starting to turn the screw here and advance towardss the Ireland 22.60 min: An hour gone, Wales are five points clear and have a knackered looking Irish team very much under the cosh.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Ireland v Wales - live! | Barry Glendenning
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It doesn't help that I'm completely knackered after staying up till about 2 in the morning drinking whiskey.
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Work and looking after our son leaves me knackered.
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I have a new digital camera on my Xmas list as my current one is knackered.
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I am supposed to be going dancing but I am knackered, so I will probably stay in and feel sorry for myself instead.
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Bless him, by this point it was about quarter to two in the morning and he was knackered so I forgive him for being a bit confused.
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You are constantly jet-lagged, knackered or hung-over.
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I rowed and rowed and rowed until I was knackered.
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Either way, it's annoying, but at least it doesn't mean my headphones are knackered, as I originally feared.
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But fortunately the front lock is very knackered, so didn't actually work on this occasion.
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I could really do with catching up on some sleep too because, to be honest, I'm totally knackered.
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Once the euphoria has ebbed away, Torrance will be entitled to feel a bit knackered.
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My windscreen wipers are knackered and it's snowing buckets.
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London seems very very fumy but this may be a direct result of my exhaust pipe being knackered… my own personal microclimate of carbon monoxide, ugh.
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The warm glow doesn't last, of course, but the beginning of the fringe is a good time to catch shows before the best ones start to sell out and the performers get too knackered to remember their jokes.
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Many former players hirpling around with knackered knees and hips have reason to rue the indiscriminate use of drugs.
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I am supposed to be going dancing but I am knackered, so I will probably stay in and feel sorry for myself instead.
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Anyway, before you start to panic, I was only there to visit a friend, who had a bit of a fall over the weekend and knackered his knee.
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But we all know the embattled financially knackered rail service is again going to walk away from this with no one held accountable.
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Mather's quarrel with his body began in March when he knackered his shoulder against France, putting him out of the rest of the regular season.
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Woke up already feeling knackered this morning, which is never a good start to the day.
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Everything is fine. I've just been out a lot this week and now I'm knackered with a monster hangover.
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I would post something coherent about wider society's contempt of fandom because it's play engaged in by adults (I think it was The Joy Of Sex which said bed was the only time grownups get to play), the relationship between fan fiction (play) and writing for publication (work), the contempt of each age group for the next younger group, and the hierarchies of literary snobbery in my head, but frankly I'm too knackered. *goes back to bed*
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Needless to say, I missed any chance of brinner with me mates, but as it turned out Arthur and Meg were knackered (having just come back from a holiday up north) and were heading back to Portsmouth in the late afternoon anyway.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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I'm knackered and have to get some kip, but let me take you up on one (relatively insubstantial) point - the landscape could be improved immeasurably by ridding it of farmers, unless de-forestation, polluted rivers, shoddy-looking barns made out of breeze-blocks and rusty corrugated iron, and otherwise pleasant country roads covered in years-worth of crusted cow cack are your thing...
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Went to bed before midnight last night, fell asleep relatively quickly and woke up this morning feeling as knackered as I have all week.