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.
Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke.
The lonely old lady filled up the time between supper and retiring with solitaire.
They represent the spirit of those who are not content to take the world as it is, who have ideas of how to improve the life they see around them and who are untiring in their pursuit of these ideas.
By retiring officers unfit for active service, this group attempted to revolutionize the navy's traditional system of promotion.
The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service.
Her majesty awarded a distinction to the retiring Prime Minister.
He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity. Times, Sunday Times
Coming into reasoned discourse and proving that you are a fellow mouth-breather is tiring as it happens again and again. Discourse.net: Economist.com Does '7 Questions for Dan Froomkin'
Then on, with, the galloping even triplet of the house's hoofs beneath me, as they came down in quick succession, as if the earth were a muffled drum and we were beating an untiring rataplan on her breast. Mr. Isaacs
The Harvard faculty fell all over themselves offering praise, one after the other, for the retiring president.
The company's official retiring age is 65.
After retiring as Natural Resources Director in 1982, Mr. Ranta remained active in conservation, serving on the Sandy Neck Governing Board and donating his time and knowledge to benefit the town's shellfishery. The Barnstable Patriot
In the second half with both teams tiring and the conditions worsening it was down to who wanted to win the game more.
I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
Scobie took the mound for the seventh, retiring the first batter.
The book is overlong, repetitious, and written in a kind of perfervid prose that quickly becomes tiring. The One and Only
He even overtook Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen, who had started out six minutes before him but had a disastrous ride on the tricky and technical route's sharp bends, fast downhills and tiring uphills.
We were both on the point of retiring; when the Duchess, after a brief consultation with some of the surrounding matronage, made a sign to Mariamne to approach. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
Later he earned a drive-through penalty before retiring after a problem with his engine's pneumatic pressure.
How many times have you been back since retiring? Times, Sunday Times
The occasional guard braved the discomfort for a few minutes before retiring to the cool of the corridors.
Start beautiful, tiring process, the end is very sad, sober difficult.
She splashed the heavily mineralized water on her face, the paint readily retiring.
When Pinkerton finally reappears, bringing his American wife with him, Butterfly bids a desperate farewell to her boy before retiring behind a screen to commit hara-kiri.
We dropped down to a lower level were we encountered a hading (inclined from the vertical) fault plane which was rather awkward and tiring as we were walking at an angle!
Jenna Jameson is getting old and retiring very soon. Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds
This is great news - not just for fast-tiring toddlers, but also for hyperadrenalised teens keen to make one last dash round the big attractions before shut-up time.
At length, we return inside and he bars the creaking door before retiring to his sanctum. Times, Sunday Times
Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer ` couldn't tell a lie ', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did some - times, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, look - ing as if the ` precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour. Little Women
Retiring public servants now routinely move into jobs where their previous contacts and responsibilities can enrich themselves and their employers.
After the tiring shopping, we decided to entertain ourself by playing foosball. Archive 2006-05-01
The two young gentlemen, having seen their blooming charges safely within the door of the Alms-House, and vainly endeavored to look through the keyhole at them going up-stairs, scuffle away together with that sensation of blended imbecility and irascibility which is equally characteristic of callow youth and inexperienced Thomas Cats when retiring together from the society of female friends who seem to be still on the fence as regards their ultimate preferences. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870
They couldn't have thought that they could succeed in tiring out a runner like him! Further Adventures of Nils
Encouraged by the discovery of streptothricin and stimulated by the triumphal development of penicillin treatment, the research team headed by Dr. Waksman continued their untiring search for new antibiotic-producing microbes. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech
You should bar the door before retiring for the night.
It was a relief when my own friend was roundly acquitted of fake charges; but the doubtful double-think was tiring. Times, Sunday Times
After all it is infinity itself that the untiring artist wants to grasp more than anything else in the world.
It used to be that retiring Japanese sumo wrestling champions stayed in the sport after peaking in the ring.
How are we going to make that commitment to seniors who are retiring?
In other respects also, purple partakes of the properties of blue, which is its archeus, or ruling colour; hence it is to the eye a retiring colour, that reflects light little, and loses rapidly in power in a declining light, and according to the distance at which it is viewed. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
It tells the true story of a retiring couple who rent out their farmhouse, only to discover their tenant has turned it into a marijuana grow-op.
It requires retiring all twenty-seven batters in order, without allowing a single runner.
Looking after the kids is extremely tiring.
None of the competitors could catch up with the untiring runner who was in the lead.
Start beautiful, tiring process, the end is very sad, sober difficult.
Obama's stop in Bridgeport seems a bit odd since state Attorney General Dick Blumenthal (D) appears to be in solid position to defeat former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon (R) in the race to replace retiring Sen. Chris Dodd (D). Where President Obama is headed (and what it means)
She found herself tiring more quickly these days.
He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity. Times, Sunday Times
I do not like to knock the NHS because my mother worked long and hard as a nursing sister before retiring.
It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came .... Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
The public now has the opportunity to give public recognition to those people who give untiringly of their time for the betterment of society.
Again, the redesigned facility will produce an area that you will enjoy after a tiring game of golf.
Such as: the establishment of databank, category analysis and management, data mining and implementation, integration "between proscenium and tiring-room" of Digital Marketing etc.
As a child, Elizabeth was very shy and retiring.
Brought up in Bangor, Maine, Rudom became a professional basketball player before retiring at 30.
This quiet, retiring man refused a knighthood more than once. Times, Sunday Times
a shy retiring girl
Each night, we untack, groom, feed and turn out our horses in a borrowed field before retiring to our own warm B&B billet.
He had a nose for news and he was an untiring reporter, reaching everywhere to ferret out some news.
They say that in this case, some of the people who are retiring are in key positions.
The password is 'Louvain'," said Helen, retiring, not at all sorry to seek the comfort of her bed. For the Sake of the School
It's a wise idea to think about how disaster-prone an area may be before retiring there, but no matter what we do, there's the "joss" factor. On The Subject of Retirement Places
After retiring as a dancer she turned to singing and began a new career as a coloratura soprano in Italy in 1938.
This month may become a tiring month for sixth graders of elementary schools as they have to take two consecutive examinations to graduate and become eligible for junior high school.
At the awards ceremony, Chris Cairns dropped a broad hint that he might not be retiring from Test cricket just yet, as had been suggested in the media.
And so, as it appeared, Mr. Dallas was of that opinion, for the very next day he applied to Chancery for a brieve to get Charles Napier served nearest and lawful heir to his uncle; and as in legal warfare, where the judges are cognisant only of patent claims, there is small room for retiring tactics, Mr. White felt himself obliged, however anxious he was to gain time, to follow his opponent's example by taking out a competing brieve in favour of Henrietta. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
Anything in one of the 31 retiring colors is on that list so that means ink pads, refills, cardstock, brads, ribbon, markers, buttons ... etc. etc. Archive 2010-06-01
After retiring from burlesque (1937), she appeared in nightclubs and on television. Five People Born on February 9 | myFiveBest
She'll be retiring in a couple more years.
Death at any time is too soon and early death due to a deconditioned lifestyle immediately disqualifies you from any benefits you look forward to at the end of it all, whether it's finally getting your IRA benefits, retiring to the Bahamas or seeing peace in the Middle East although we may have to live a few lifetime lengths to get to see that one. Penny Hoff: Managing Your Weight Is Worth 10 More Years
This feature of the song serves to explain its inordinate length, for a song may occupy the greater part of a night, apparently without tiring the audience by its verbose periphrases and its exuberant figures. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
With average lifespans lengthening, more plan beneficiaries are retiring than dying.
His bright tenor was untiring in the taxing role, full of Italianate cavatinas.
But the untiring efforts and killer instinct in them to excel on a par with others took them to the new heights of winning medals at the recently concluded fifth National Athletics Championships at Bangalore.
It's full of rich of ladies and business tycoons retiring after making a cool million and leaving the company to their kids.
No major league pitcher, to our knowledge. has ever matched his feat of retiring three runners on pickoff throws in one inning
She had, for some time, been tiring of the Carr ménage and had made tentative enquiries about an independent flat. IN LOVE AND WAR
The architect of welfare reforms announced yesterday that he was retiring from the government. Times, Sunday Times
We talked a bit, keeping things brief as we could see her tiring from the effort of being up, being out and being in conversation. Church Lady
The retiring editor received a special salute from the local newspaper.
That got tiring fast, since I disremembered the notes to the chorus.
He was an untiring worker, honest, and of a singular modesty.
His bullish and untiring advocacy of the Government and its policies may not be to everyone's taste.
I'll grant that it's "truthy," but I get the sense that in the mainstream, folks are tiring pretty quickly of pretend knowledge. Anti-Obama Fury Spills Over Into Down-Ticket Contests: "Bomb Obama"
‘My father was an inspirational leader and was untiring in his determination to ensure that the business had the best shops, the best staff and the best product for its customers,’ he said.
Mrs. Feeney must have been in a lot of pain for she was normally a retiring woman noted for her kindnesses.
It's just too tiring to bop somebody on the nose.
He is untiring and unwavering in his dedication - he works on vacation days and is there for everybody, all the time.
After retiring he worked as a supervisor of the national team and ran a car dealership in São Paulo. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, assuming two-thirds of those retiring were replaced in work by unemployment beneficiaries, the financial costs could have been halved.
She's been leading throughout the race, but it now looks as if she's tiring.
She's a lovely woman, even if she can be a bit tiring at times.
A deceptively fragile and refined appearance belied her dedication and untiring industry in the cause of justice for women.
The US welfare state is overburdened, now the baby boom generation is retiring.
This movie is tedious and tiring for the audience simply because it is overwhelming.
The key would be retiring Robinson, the leadoff batter in the inning.
Also, perhaps forwards are doing more tiring work and therefore need extra rest. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the British movement was successfully carried out, the enemy retiring before them; but although all the troops were out, except those absolutely needed for garrisoning the works, the enemy's field bases -- "laagers" -- could not be reached. Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
Ceding Arsenal plenty of possession and playing on the break a tiring Sunderland looked poised for a point. Sunderland fans salute Arsenal's storybook goalscorer Thierry Henry
But that generation is really dying off or retiring.
Most songs are retiring ballads, the kind pulled out at the end of the night to send fans out the door in each other's arms.
The young workers, they are still in what I call the acquiring phase of life, and the older ones were thinking they could really sock it away for their last five years before retiring," she said. News | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com
I have a fantasy about retiring to a small liberal arts college and teaching. Times, Sunday Times
They are untiring fighters for the rights of battered women.
Subsequently, we are entering Empty Nestdom at the age our forebears may have been retiring from jobs -- if they had any -- and were well into doting grandparenthood. Michele Willens: Face It: Monikerless Murmurs
Despite his lineage and academic qualifications, Denholm was modest and retiring to a fault.
He spent the final six years of his political career as a disengaged and at times embittered figure on the parliamentary backbench, finally retiring in 1996.
The team behind her deserve huge credit for not retiring her after injury. The Sun
I want to thank your web site for its untiring efforts in raising the consciousness of the oppressed.
The 149 paintings, sculptures and other art works that brighten up Waterford Regional Hospital for the sick and their loved ones are there thanks to the untiring work of Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
The stack is not tiring, fun to play, and its simple patterns are easily understood.
But the money saved by not replacing the retiring head at Carlton will allow each school to afford separate teachers for infants and juniors.
It's tiring and exhausting to constantly have to boost an ego due to whatever reason.
The roar of the conflict along the river had become terrific; to the east a New Jersey battery, obscured in flame-shot clouds, was retiring by its twenty-eight-foot prolonges, using cannister; the remains of a New Hampshire infantry regiment supported the retreat; between the two batteries Claymore in his shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, heavy revolver swinging in his blackened fist, was giving a tongue lashing to the stream of fugitives from the river woods. Ailsa Paige
He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
At 10.30 pm, some ten and a half hours after first hooking the salmon and in complete darkness, the exhausted angler felt that the fish was finally tiring.
The old school secretary (who I also met) is retiring ( unsurprising, as she looks about 94). AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
A nail-biting final ten minutes saw both tiring sides slugging it out in the middle of the pitch for supremacy.
The second prong would be to identify and hire individuals retiring or separating from the military with critical skills.
Sam Houston A., author of this article, worked as lead TV weathercaster in Albuquerque, Denver, Washington D.C., and San Francisco prior to retiring in Mexico in 1986. Alfredo Zalce--Michoacán's living legend
It is only due to the untiring efforts of this dedicated band of women that the doctor from Texas will meet his soul mate.
It was difficult to give a definite point for all these troops to move on, for we had been warned against retiring through villages, as they were naturally made a cockshy of by the enemy's guns. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
He lived in the imperial capital Beijing from 1523 to 1526 before retiring back to his native city to live the life of a scholar and a gentleman.
The same Bottom, who seems bred in a tiring-room, has another histrionical passion. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Because I'm self-conscious about sucking in front of even more people, yeah, and also because I'm an introvert and large groups are tiring and I am seriously overpeopled these days. Eleanor trembles. eleanor moans.
Retiring on a diet of golf and pinochle may be relaxing, but the body, mind and soul crave more.
Older people are tiring of predictable package holidays. Times, Sunday Times
William of the President's Council on Bioethics is to be commended for his untiring efforts supporting scientific progress through ethical stem-cell research.
It's been tiring and she's teething but I get a lot of support.
Shortly after retiring from the Foreign Ministry in January 1966, she became secretary general of the Mapai Party and supported Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in intraparty conflicts. Five People Born on May 3rd | myFiveBest
I'm not sure about toys but a good game of poker or euchre can really get the competitive juices flowing before retiring for the night.
Fending off stealth ninjas with cardboard swords is very tiring.
For several minutes he ducked and dived under knife thrusts, but he was tiring fast and couldn't see how he could seriously retaliate, short of disarming the man.
By the end of the third debate, his nine or 10 stock points had begun to lose their shine, and he began to appear like a weary salesman, tiring both himself and his audience with his spiel.
The form of the retiring chief crossed it for an instant, the hurdle was then closed, and the shieling left in darkness. The Fair Maid of Perth
If you are a spendthrift before retiring you will be a spendthrift during retirement.
When I was doing the play I was tiring and absolutely using up all of my resources but it was a two hour period in the evening and then it was finished.
He considered retiring from the movie scene when the Jack the Joker label stuck too firmly after the release of Batman.
It was in a cottage at Osborne that the same gentle and august almsgiver was found reading comfortable Scripture words to a sick and aged peasant, quietly retiring upon the entrance of the clerical visitant, that _his_ message of peace might be freely given, and thus allowing the sufferer to disclose to the pastor that the lady in the widow's weeds was Victoria of England. Great Britain and Her Queen
We will strive untiringly to build the foundations for stable peace in the whole region. Eisenhower 1956
Washington (CNN) - President Obama took a key step in cementing his judicial legacy Monday, nominating Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. BREAKING: Obama taps Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
Our development is originated from untiring pursuit and unceasing innovation.
Older people are tiring of predictable package holidays. Times, Sunday Times
After 45 years with the Society, the thought of retiring as president fills me with a swell of emotions.
You should bar the door before retiring for the night.
They are even afraid to touch Shakespeare for its vast scope of interpretations and description, and there is nothing more tiring than a poor teacher with a Shakespeare volume.
After retiring, she became involved in voluntary service in the local community.
Some scholars are predicting that as many as 70% of all community college presidents will be retiring in the next 10 years.
There's also comfort for those tiring of the glass and aluminium cladding look in commercial buildings.
The third round automatically began the tiring of the aging Listen, who was overconfidently trained to go only two rounds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
He was merely retiring hurt with cramp in his left forearm and will be fit to resume his innings today. Times, Sunday Times
Over one quarter of the public school teachers in the United States will be retiring in the next decade.
In 1976, after retiring from teaching, he founded the Cryonics Institute, adopting the word "cryonics" from cryogenics, a field of physics that studies how materials behave at very low temperatures. NYT > Home Page
When he found it too tiring to persuade by talking, he collected as much information as he could about smoking and printed it out as handouts.
Not wanting to be left behind I did as I was told, ignoring the dull ache caused with every bounce of my tiring body.
After retiring from the saddle and taking up residence in Paterson, N.J., then a famous rendezvous for turfmen, Littlefield became one of the leading trainers in America.
NOTE: Definitive and often exclusive coverage of the entire ACORN story has been untiringly performed by The Brad Blog, whose dogged persistence can be credited for much of the progress toward justice and exposure found above. Archive 2010-03-01
In March the university announced that the president is retiring from office.
Cathy seemed very anxious to get Nelly to bed, and kept looking at her watch, finally retiring early to bed.
Most pressing is the large demographic bulge of the baby boom, people who are going to be retiring over the next 30 years.
Because people are getting wealthier, they are retiring earlier and this is draining an already shallow pool of available human resources.
Well I'm sorry to hear that you are retiring from playing.
I have politely declined invitations to parties, and with pouty lips and a grumpy expression, I shall be retiring to my bedchamber at a sensible hour.
Porter served in Korea and later in Vietnam with a riverine warfare group before retiring in Albert "Bud" Porter
After a few minutes of waiting patiently for her to awake I crash in the chair I'm sitting in from the long, tiring, confusing day.
Obviously his concern about retiring after the summer Euros debacle would have been that he was bowing out on such a low note. The Sun
In the U.S., the frequency with which religious groups have waged campaigns over supposedly sacrilegious paintings is starting to get tiring.
Behind the scenes were the postscenium, or retiring-room, and porticoes, to which, in case of sudden showers, the people retreated from the theatre. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Such donkeywork proved so tiring to East German spymaster Markus Wolf that he told one of his American moles to slow down, my Washington Post colleague Peter Finn recalled for me today: Red spymaster recalled agony of copying stolen documents
A long row is very tiring.
A sceptical sports editor eventually agreed, although he was predictably disagreeable when what eventually materialised was a ‘Why Monty Should Consider Retiring’ column.
His untiring efforts have resulted in making the district a ‘no air horn’ zone.
In those hundred and four hours a year -- hours which came after a tiring day's work -- his brain was fed upon "mensuration" and "the science of horticulture," the former on the chance that some day he might want to measure a wall for paper-hanging or do some other job of the sort, and the latter in case fate should have marked him out for a nursery-gardener, when it would be handy to know that germinating seeds begin by pushing down a root and pushing up a leaf or two. Change in the Village
Instead of tiring with the increasing pressure of the task at hand, my Lady thrived, though I was careful to bear the brunt of any physical labor—heating kettles in the kitchen and carrying the water down the stairs, lifting patients, cleaning and sterilizing the lavement machine. The Mistress of Nothing
In turning the intense earnestness and religious enthusiasm of this great-souled woman into this channel, I soon felt the power of my convert in goading me forever forward to more untiring work. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
During this period the sages and seers took to the practice of retiring into the forests to contemplate ‘the cream of all and what takes place’.
Tiring at last of this diversion, he turned his attention to his sleeping companions, and being in a condescending humour, and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was nodding at him, the humorous greyhound raised his front paw and passed it over the face of the slumberer, who thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour! A Hungarian Nabob
He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity. Times, Sunday Times
Suzanne's gynecologist is retiring.
She's been leading throughout the race, but it now looks as if she's tiring.
The bounce is completely different for a start - the ball bounces lower - the points are much faster and it's more tiring on the legs, as you have to bend them more because of the low bounce.
That may have been true when most jobs were boring and tiring. Times, Sunday Times
Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
Before retiring in 1999, the clergywoman served for five years as the top staff executive for the Methodists' communications agency.
I found it tiring to begin with but I soon got used to it.
Cronje said he had dreams of becoming a sports commentator or columnist after retiring as a national player.
As it swam around, gradually tiring, Williamson approached it in the water and took his photos [the accompanying image, showing a young rorqual that beached in Florida in 2002, is borrowed from VisitGulf. com]. A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I
Despite the late hour in retiring to bed, Kathryn had intended to rise early. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
He served as a senator for 30 years before retiring in 2003 because of his faltering health.
Life is tiring and stressful for most of us. The Sun

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