How To Use Tired In A Sentence

As for me, I was feeling a little spaced out and tired from my trip across the pond yesterday.
Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
The film had a rather tired plot.
Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?

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Ronald Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. Mastin, Ronald L.
I was tired between synapses and in the connective tissue of organs.
We were tired but we managed to push along to the next village.
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
And even those who'd retired in the fullness of time were no longer secure from retrospective investigation and changed pensionable status. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Jo was tired, irritable, and depressed.
Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
But the market is the pursuit of friendship, mutual tired, I finally left.
I quit talking as his hands began to knead my tired, knotted muscles and one by one, I felt them all begin to slacken.
Here retired US diplomat Ellsworth Bunker drew up a plan to transfer the administrative authority for West Papua from the Netherlands to a neutral administrator, and thence to Indonesia.
Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
He also introduced the concept of a stipendiary chairmanship, at one stroke freeing the council from its reliance on semi-retired highflyers from the business community.
I'm too tired to cook tonight; shall we eat out?
If you get tired one day, you will see my smile as long as you turn around.
I was so tired when I got home from work last night that I had a quick nap.
I'm sick and tired of your constant complaints.
Also: Gwynedd should be our powerhouse, instead we're just tired and old and undynamic. Final results
After he retired in the 1980s, he became increasingly reclusive. Times, Sunday Times
We were somewhat tired after our long walk.
The difference in ride going upwind and downwind was enormous, demonstrating the need to assess weather conditions for an offshore trip with a boat full of potentially tired divers.
He has now retired and repaid the money. The Sun
I'm tired of being messed around by my bank.
Paraneck Stable's former classic starter Griffinite has been retired due to a slight ligament strain in his left front leg.
Due to the large numbers of those indicted, the court clerks eventually tired of writing the charge in full and began to abbreviate it.
The play starred a well-known retired actress who was intent on a come-back.
I lose sleep, I have a bad temper and I am tearful, tired and upset.
Feeling his hand tired, he dropped the book he held, leant his head on a teapoy, and fell asleep. Hung Lou Meng
Filling in for the injured Rick Reed, Santana (4-1) retired 14 straight batters from the first to the fifth innings. USATODAY.com
Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
She was thin and tired-looking and generally in a bad way.
The great thing is they love it there and it really poops them out, so they'll be tired for a day or two after they come home.
Wyatt liked the city manager, his tiredness and efficiency and harmless irascibility.
Don't think you can blame them for seizing contol except I do not think you can blame them for being tired of being used by the remainder of the Republican Party in the North and West for 40 years. Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich
I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
You impose too much on me, and I'm so tired.
Older manufacturing companies are burdened with tremendous health care costs for retired employees.
Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds. Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
After he retired from football he became a sports journalist for the Gazette.
That it works at all is largely down to the enthusiasm of its cast, who set about making the most of a tired and mostly cliched scenario.
... because I am tired of answering these questions in email, one reader at a time, and I bet truepenny is too: Self-promotion salad
I was tired of being a bookkeeper.
When I got back from Florida last night and I was cranky and tired and hungry for something sweet, I defrosted the shortbread dough that I froze a few weeks back.
I was delighted to play alongside him for one last time; I wanted to play with my old mucker before he retired and went home to Iceland.
Six years ago she began to get tired and put weight on around her abdomen.
I have had three literary agents over the decades, but that was because one retired ill and one died suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
'Aren't you supposed to be retired?' 'Yes, in theory.'
It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
The bath also soothes the tired nerves and induces sound sleep.
Louis took the tired baby from her arms and tucked him into the carrycot that stood close to the bed.
In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
Not only does it make you look tired and unhealthy, but long-term sleeplessness can damage your health. Make time for beauty sleep this holiday season
Shortly before he retired from the waterfront, Hoffer became an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
She’s tired of seeing what she calls my boar’s nest at my end of the table festooned with stacked books, medical articles, and newspapers, so she’s making me actually, she asked me very nicely go through them – which is my plan this weekend – and get rid of them. Bougainvillea in bloom | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Instead, the filmmakers contented themselves with piling on more of the same tired war movie folderol.
With each gasp for breath, the wolves became more and more tired.
After the banquets, the concerts the table tennis exhibitor, he went home tiredly.
Finlay Martin is a retired farmer in Ardlethan, a very small town north-west of Wagga in New South Wales.
Do you wake up feeling tired?
We retired to promises of clear skies the next day, in spite of the weighty cloud cover. Times, Sunday Times
The loud checks of his ample suit made the bookies appear attired for a funeral.
Tired of writing detective novels, she began to explore new territory.
It's not for nothing that Cimarusti married Christina Echiverri, a retired pastry chef now raising their new baby girl.
So saying, he dismissed Roland Graeme, through a different door from that by which he had entered, signed a cross, and pronounced a benedicite as they parted, and then, still muttering to himself, retired into the garden, and locked the door on the inside. The Abbot
Everybody is athletic enough to make that last-ditch tackle or cover that gap when someone is a bit tired.
Dealing with my Father MSgt Leslie Cooper USAF Retired who died a paralyzing horrible death from cancer exposure to working on Titan II ICBMS and having daily contact with Veterans and Veterans with Service Connected disabilities, they are considered noncombat and face more dangers of dying an early age than those in combat and they are the Cold War Veterans. 911 VETERANS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES NEED HELP!
We are here to make sure their address is correct so that they can get counted in the census when it comes out next year, "said Tom Boone, a retired firefighter who is working as a" lister "in the central part of Billings. Billingsgazette.com
Both Conductors were interesting people, retired and loved railroading.
She said that she was tired of being expected to be a superwoman.
I groaned, realising that although I was dog-tired, I couldn't get back to sleep.
Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded.
Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it.
If not they might buck until they get tired or rid themselves of the unwanted load when the blindfold is removed. Be Careful in Bear Country
“I thought they’d help me be a better snudge,” the boy said tiredly. Conqueror's Moon
Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer, consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on specific probabilities of accidents at nuclear plants.
Tears tickled her tired eyes as she slid down the door her wild hair curtaining her pained face.
When I'm tired, I like to relax into a deep armchair.
A retired FBI agent was one of the authors' best sources of information.
So instead I started using an electric razor to shave closely, but gradually got tired of that and just started razoring it again.
Although the idea of expiation was not excluded (Lev., i, 4), it retired somewhat into the background, since in the complete destruction of the victim by fire the absolute submission of man to God was to find expression. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
I'm so tired that I could sleep for a week.
Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.
The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
busywork" program for unemployed, retired politicians to pick up an extra check at the expense of us, the U.S. taxpayers. Bakersfield.com Latest news
He retired as supreme commander of the German armed forces in 1911, but re-entered the army in 1914.
Chuck Banker, pro personnel director of the Philadelphia Eagles, is tired of the team being criticized for losing defensive players.
When he retired from the sea in 1870 he returned to Bequia and set up whaling ‘companies ‘consisting of four whaleboats and about 26 men per company.’
It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster. The Three Clerks
The survey team carried out over 200 interviews with retired people.
On the fringes, old men sit smoking huge pipes and pineapple vendors provide refreshment for tired buyers and sellers.
Top be honest I was a little bit tired, I suppose every one of us on the Great Britain team was, but we were all ready to give it a bash again.
If pollies and retired pollies want to access unlimited airport lounge grog, they can pay for it like anyone else.
At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack. Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn
It is unlikely that private capital will finance such a tremendous undertaking until the risks are retired and the scalability challenge can be addressed.
So if you're too tired to exercise, you set off another vicious cycle.
He retired to England, a fabulously wealthy man. Times, Sunday Times
When the tournament is held before the season, not in the middle of it, players aren't tired, nursing injuries or distracted by their seasons.
They say youth is wasted on the young and experience on the retired.
She retired early on account of ill health.
Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull. An East Wind Coming
Everyone knows what's best for him or herself. He/she or he can also be used in writing:If in doubt, ask your doctor. He/she can give you more information. These uses can seem awkward when they are used a lot. It is better to try to change the sentence, using a plural noun. Instead of saying:A baby cries when he or she is tired you can say Babies cry when they are tired.
My uncle Paul was a master brassfounder; but when he retired he set up a most successful ballroom dancing academy. Its A Grand Old Name
He'd come all the way on a poor nag who should have been retired to the pastures a long time ago.
He was drunk; he seemed excited and tired, as if he had just come down off methedrine.
A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50-75 years took part in the study.
Mr. Astor had held the wheel for five hours and, at my suggestion, he retired to the comfortable little cabin and lay down for fifteen minutes, leaving the aeroboat to soar in great slow circles under its admirable automatic controls over the main battle area. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
And one particular day when I was particularly tired, she was talking, and my eyes closed, and the next thing was, bang!
Hanophy retired a few months ago; telephone calls for this article made to home numbers listed in his name weren't answered. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
But early in your pregnancy, you learn a new meaning for the word tired. You’ll Lose the Baby Weight
Some were attired in figure-hugging minis, some were dressed in sparkling evening wear and a few in casuals.
Becker is playing only selected events as he winds up his career and has retired from Grand Slam tournament play.
One of the most effective homeopathic remedies is gelsemium 6th, which conforms to the classic picture of most flu symptoms, including tiredness, weakness, heavy and sick feelings. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
Astrid Stawiarz for The Wall Street Journal Chef Jacques Pepin "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman, who created the five-foot cake for the evening, stood out among the black-tie attired guests in jeans, a T-shirt and a leather jacket. Raising a Toast to Culinary Masters
There was a long journey ahead of us, so we only remained during the time that was occupied in outspanning the tired mules and inspanning the fresh lot. Argentina from a British Point of View
I was quite tired when I made it home after eight, had a nice curried chicken with steamed callaloo and white rice for dinner.
We're in the middle of reviewing some pages of the BBC Style Guide that discuss journalese, the tired vocabulary of the lazy hack who insists on using tedious words because he thinks all other hacks do.
But after a wile you get tired of being worried about kids who aren't even yours.
You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
I am tired of being used as the whipping-boy for all the mistakes that are made in the office.
Known as a dandy, he was attired in his usual flamboyant dress -- pink satin with silver trim and pink heels to match his coat. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
Ok, off the soapbox Mr M, it's late and I'm tired and ratty.
When he retired from his work as an Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner, he decided to emulate English Botanist and Diatomist Dr. C. L. Odam and collect diatoms from tributaries.
he walked around tiredly
Always impeccably attired, a little black dress, high heels, and a Reardon steel bracelet even on a construction site. Michael Jones: Atlas Shrugged
However, its side effects consist of tiredness, upset stomach, nervousness, dizziness, and difficulty concentrating.
Granma (which, now that I've said it a few times, is a really bad name for any magazine except the house organ of the American Association of Retired People) had "compelling" "evidence" of the U.S. attack, claiming that if the parasite, which is known as varroa, had infiltrated the island naturally, it would've spread from east to west. American Beat: Bad Bee-Havior?
Sometimes we feel tired because we are lost in our life.
Winning races, or even just getting extra hours in a day, is not a bad trade-off for a little less shut-eye, so Dr. Sleep has an interesting bargain for a tired world.
But when you're sitting in a chair, dog-tired, and it's warm, you're going to want to fall asleep.
I left the San Francisco murals scene a few years later, tired of its supposedly socially-conscious artists backbiting and claim-jumping for grants, feeling that too many muralists only did artwork when a check arrived.
The Association, whose anniversary we celebrate to-night, was founded seven years ago, for the purpose of granting permanent pensions to such of the corps dramatique as had retired from the stage, either from a decline in their years or a decay of their powers. Speeches: Literary and Social
I just got so tired of anxiously crossing and uncrossing my legs and looking away from the screen.
This theory says that women are orgasmic so that they're satiated after orgasm and they'll be so tired after orgasm with intercourse that they'll keep lying down on their backs so that the sperm don't leak out.
I have been on the road since five o'clock this morning and I'm really tired.
That creepy old retired nun with the rheumy face of a Martian had locked him in a closet in the basement.
In the olden days you retired because you were simply too old and feeble to carry the coal to the surface any more. Times, Sunday Times
His face was tan and leathery, and his eyes were tired but alert as he recounted the days without food or water, beyond the rain drops he caught in his mouth during a drizzle that came the day before he was rescued. Ed Rosenthal, LA Hiker Lost In Desert, Followed Shade For 6 Days
Known as a dandy, he was attired in his usual flamboyant dress -- pink satin with silver trim and pink heels to match his coat. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
I can't stop yawning - I must be tired.
A smiling Princess Anne was attired in an aqua-blue hat and matching jacket, with white top.
As if on cue, the chestnut roan he had given her to ride stomped its hoof in agreement, undoubtedly tired and hungry herself.
I am tired of the strong stance that they want to take with football without helping the conference in other sports.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
As Nigel just said, Jerry retired from the telethon this year, but of course, he's here with us in spirit and in heart, and we will continue to be energized and inspired by what I like to call his towering example," Carl said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Apart from still being extremely tired and run-down, there is also so much to be done.
Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.
His expression is casual, relaxed, though maybe a little tired.
It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade.
I'm so tired that I could sleep for a week.
Finally the taube tired of manoeuvering, would disappear. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.
middlings" for pancakes at home, when her mother was tired of buckwheat. A Little Girl of Long Ago
Honourability and integrity might well have been his middle names, and when he retired and put the uniform away he did so with a record of service behind him that anyone would be proud and indeed privileged to have.
‘Rise and shine, sweetheart,’ I opened my eyes, feeling groggy and tired.
But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
(My father, a retired general practitioner, can still tell as much from palpating a patient's abdomen or listening carefully for crepitus while articulating a patient's sore knee than most modern internists can from reading an MRI or CT scan.) The Cost of Health Care -- in Live Chickens
No. 12 Marat Safin outlasted Andrew Ilie, who trailed 5-0 in the fifth set when he retired because of cramping. Agassi, Kournikova out in second round
If you're too tired to cook, let's go to a restaurant.
Everyone in this line looks tired, run-down, and much too old.
But I am tired and unable to refrain from the snarking here, because this was just sloppy and pathetic. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
It was the 20th career complete game for Ponson, who retired 20 of 21 batters from the first inning to the eighth. USATODAY.com
he's mighty tired
The mistake is to believe that recently retired sportsmen or women, fast-tracked into the studio, are alone best placed to commentate on and analyse their sport of expertise.
They have little to offer beyond tired bromides about needing more money for capacity building, innovative partnerships, and a host of other buzzwords that make no difference in the lives of children who attend failing schools.
Officers and men alike were perpetually cold, wet, filthy, tired and frustrated.
• Accounting "supremo" John Hagen, recently retired as chairman at Big Four firm Deloitte, has been made a life member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in formal -- The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
I feel fine, at least not so tired as I felt before.
With his opponent looking tired, Khan took full advantage landing plenty of powerful shots to secure a comprehensive victory.
He's tried buprenorphine but it makes him tired and irritable. The Sun
Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
Years later, he retired respectably as a cashier.
By eleven o'clock we were all tired so we knocked it on the head.
There he could be as quiet and retired as in the attic of his Uncle Robert Manning's house in Salem.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation
He was tired of living out of a suitcase .
Bryan, a retired mechanic and former car service manager, has not looked back since this introduction.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
I made it to Home Sweet Home dead dog-tired, checked in, trudged to my room, and opened the door. The Exorsistah: X Returns
Excessive tiredness while driving can kill.
But with ISI's hand or at least that of its "alumnus" in the form of retired officers being seen, the analysis is that the army may be deeply involved in the plot. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
He called for a ball from the umpire and stepped on second base, claiming to have retired Merkle on a force-out. No Uncertain Terms
In fact, it's likely they may be tired and dreading the monotony of a step routine.
Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
My feet were beginning to blister, and my joints ached, but finally, tired and weary, I reached the final step.
-- Do they seem overtired, cranky, irritable, aggressive, overemotional or hyperactive, or have trouble thinking during the day? Kids tucked in with a dose of melatonin
By the time I get home, I'm too tired to do anything active.
Heart gets cold and love gets tired,it's inevitable when you experience love.
At half-past seven the onlookers had retired to safe positions five or six hundred yards away.
The Kaisers were also tired of being conditioned to accept everyone else's values, and when their pursuit of fame turned on them and failed them, they were sick of that too.
Other retired chaplains seem unwilling to suggest that chaplains should walk out on the troops if the ban is repealed. Christianity Today

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