[
US
/ˈtaɪɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /tˈaɪəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /tˈaɪəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
producing exhaustion
an exhausting march
the visit was especially wearing
How To Use tiring In A Sentence
- Her majesty awarded a distinction upon 〔 to 〕 the retiring Prime Minister.
- In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
- I have no intention of retiring just yet.
- Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
- Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
- Usually shy and retiring, the crested argus is not easy to observe.
- Interviewee: If the job is too tiring, I'll probably quit.
- Over the course of three and a half days they listened to evidence presented by both sides, and then questioned the witnesses for both defence and prosecution before retiring to consider their verdict.
- Energetic, adaptable, never tiring airmen are at the core of the Air Force.
- He pressed his lips together until they went white and appeared to be tiring of me quite quickly.