How To Use Wearily In A Sentence
-
The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
-
He sighed wearily as he looked at the pile of work.
-
Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
-
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
-
She sat now on a little stool that she had made for herself of empty tomato cans, covered with gaily flowered cretonne, and drawing back the muslin frilled curtains, looked wearily over the fields.
The Second Chance
-
He rubbed a hand wearily over his eyes.
-
Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus.
-
The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
-
He wearily levered himself in and sat awhile watching the street.
-
Robbie Conal, who had Lobdell as his graduate advisor at Stanford in the late '70s says that "Frank would mutter at me, sometimes wearily, sometimes conspiratorially, every time we were together for more than half an hour; 'Nothing worth anything is easy.'
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy"
-
Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
-
Laura put the cheeseboard on the table and sat down wearily.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
-
Now he strode wearily and dispassionately through the enemy filth, cutting down those that stood in his path and ignoring all others.
-
The hallway creaked, the rain beat the roof like the clip-clop of a horse's hooves, and beds squeaked as children climbed wearily into them.
-
But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark.
-
Wearily, she checked her camera for film and took a few pictures.
-
Some reclined wearily on the couches, others leaned forward with excitement on the folding chairs.
-
He trudged wearily along the path.
-
He pushed wearily away from the dark water and flew toward the land, grateful for what he had learned about work- saving low-altitude flying.
-
He didn't want to have to deal with this now, but he had to, as a father, or even worse, as a spouse, so he scratched his balding pate and made his way upstairs wearily.
-
Troopers of the Light Horse were riding with gunners from the artillery; cacolet camels, whose native drivers had their heads shrouded in blankets, trudged beside ambulance carts; here and there a man who had lost his horse stumbled wearily along, first in one column then in another; guns and ammunition-limbers were mingled with cable-waggons; and all followed blindly man or waggon in front of them.
With Our Army in Palestine
-
He trudged wearily along the path.
-
Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face, streaking the dirt still further.
-
The walk from the bus stop was cold and she was chilled to the bone by the time she wearily opened her door.
JUST BETWEEN US
-
He asked this so wearily that it twisted my heart to see him so soon disillusioned.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
-
'_Mea culpa, mea culpa_,' he murmured wearily, then as he rose up with pale cheek a gleam of fire lit in his eye, for he would die rather than permit Saint Oswyn's shrine to be pillaged by the heathen.
Border Ghost Stories
-
Carpenter crossed the carpeted floor of the Cathedral's dark interior and stopped only to genuflect wearily, and daub his fingers in the font once more.
-
London has grown wearily used to stabbings and shootings in which the innocent are all too often caught up.
The Sun
-
I shouldered my bag wearily, eager to get to bed.
-
Twelve hours after agreeing to sell Bear Stearns Cos. for $2 a share, Alan Schwartz wearily made his way to the company gym for a much-needed workout.
-
I watched his back retreat before rubbing my eyes wearily and fingering the greasy money in my hand.
-
‘I was using the word spooks,’ Silk wearily protests, ‘in its customary and primary meaning: ‘spook’ as a specter or a ghost.’
-
They wander wearily through the mazes of psychological detail or wage almost childish logomachies over the interpretation of each other's essays.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
-
Many of the arguments have a wearily familiar ring, not least Huxley's assertion of the umbilical connection between religion and bloodshed.
-
England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Brian Sewell, however, describes his work as ‘the fagged out tag end of Surrealism and the objet trouvé wearily exploiting familiar materials in unfamiliar contexts and alien relationships’.
-
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
-
He rubbed his hand over his eyes wearily and thought for a moment before replying.
-
Dino," Stone said wearily," the speed limit on the thruway is sixty-five miles an hour.
WORST FEARS REALIZED
-
After just a couple of days, Ashdown notes wearily, the whole business feels as if it has been dragging on for weeks.
-
As any council officer, lawyer or unhysterical crime journalist will wearily tell you, this simply isn't the case.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Donnie promptly looked at Steven, and then began moving up the stairs with Steven trailing wearily behind.
-
A third spectator wearily disengaged himself from one of the Ionic columns of the portico and walked to the box, remained for a moment in serious and expectorative contemplation of the boot, and then returned to his column.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
-
As the administrator put down the phone he grimaced wearily, then his manner softened.
-
Maybe that was the basic problem, she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling.
-
Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
-
He sagged wearily back in his chair.
-
Elizabeth sighed wearily as she was woken from her sleep by Joshua crying in his crib.
-
He stood on the steps of the library to look at them, leaning wearily on his ashplant.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-
My father, " he said wearily as we spend past a huge Wheatfield, "the last elephant and lion were killed before you were born.
-
The walk from the bus stop was cold and she was chilled to the bone by the time she wearily opened her door.
JUST BETWEEN US
-
Wearily, I got up and dragged myself into the hall, taking my can of beer with me.
-
For those who sigh wearily at this impossible aspiration there are other solutions.
-
She bought another pair of silk stockings that she had hesitated at for weeks, and on Tuesday night sewed and drowsed wearily over
CHAPTER VII
-
‘Well, here we have it all,’ she said, turning to Wolf wearily, ‘the stuff of the common life: an empty pot, a bed of dry leaves, and soon a fireless hearth.’
-
Everyone asks her how autobiographical the book is, she says wearily.
-
The prince wearily rose, the burden of almost single-handedly waging a war against shadows weighing him down.
-
I thrashed about and shook him until his eyes wearily opened.
-
She walked into the flat, and shrugged wearily out of her jacket, hanging it up in the closet.
-
One hand clenched into an agitated fist, Lain rubbed her temples wearily with the other.
-
Wearily, Ryan unzipped his sleeping bag and swung his legs over the edge of the bed.
-
The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-
Grateful that the grooms from the other stables had taken care of their horses that day, they climbed wearily into their rooms in the hayloft.
-
David turned away wearily, shoulders drooping.
-
He trudged wearily on down the road.
-
Grateful that the grooms from the other stables had taken care of their horses that day, they climbed wearily into their rooms in the hayloft.
-
Laura put the cheeseboard on the table and sat down wearily.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
-
Wearily, I eased myself out of the car, wincing from the pain of my osteoarthritic spine.
-
`Just keep right on riding, sonny ," the policeman said, a bit wearily.
THREE IN ONE
-
Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail, she fought down the momentary surge of panic.
-
We plodded wearily up the road carrying heavy packs.
-
While his wife wearily cleaned countertops, Patrick nervously sat erect in the back seat of the limousine besides Tiffany Thomsby.
-
Wearily, she walked through the back door toward sunset, heedful that she might receive a sharp reprimand.
-
Rising slightly from his awkward position, he seated himself wearily on the bed, then pulled her down next to him.
-
His eyelids fluttered wearily down and the drip of the rain ceased in his ears.
Koolau the Leper
-
I kept eying him wearily… checking to make sure that his temper was in check.
-
Poor diddums,' said Finn, dragging off his salopettes wearily.
JUST BETWEEN US
-
There was an old log and she sat down wearily, just glad of the quietness and the peace of her surroundings.
-
He is at once hugely affable and yet faintly sulky, the dogged, world-weary NCO in some ancient sitcom, say, wearily humouring the la-di-da adjutant in the knowledge that everything will soon go badly wrong.
-
A ragged pigeon with one scabby leg is slouching wearily on my window-sill.
-
Roark wearily turned through sheaves of line drawings and pencil sketches spread on the table in front of them.
-
I go, wearily, to backcomb my hair.
Times, Sunday Times
-
As they came through the exit doors, Ricky looked wearily round for an Avis sign.
-
I trailed wearily behind the group, just wanting to get inside.
-
This time 12 months ago the nation was wearily, queasily familiar with the exact nature of the personal relationships within the Chelsea dressing room, so presumably Fernando Torres knows what he is saying when he claims the camaraderie and professionalism of his new employers compares favourably with the "chaos" he left behind at Liverpool.
Liverpool revival under Kenny Dalglish puts the heat on Alex Ferguson | Paul Wilson
-
Brother Patrick!" he called towed the outer office, and climbed wearily to his feet.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
-
We "cynics" tell her that under Sin's fine clothes there is a breast cancer-eaten, and at the bottom of the wine there is a bitter dreg called satiety; but Virtue does not much heed that; like the woman she is, she only notes that Sin drives a pair of ponies in the sunshine, while she herself is often left to plod wearily through the everlasting falling rain.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
-
We laid back wearily against the pillows and smiled, entwining our fingers together automatically.
-
He rubbed a hand wearily over his eyes.
-
The light from the moon was weak, peeking wearily through hazy clouds.
-
He brought all his dandy knick-knacks, not forgetting a ravishing little desk presented to him by the most amiable of women, — amiable for him, at least, — a fine lady whom he called Annette and who at this moment was travelling, matrimonially and wearily, in Scotland,
Eug�nie Grandet
-
Whistling a jaunty tune to herself, she watched the group of students file out of the lecture hall wearily.
-
‘The car's ready for collection, sir,’ he said slightly wearily as if that is where we left it yesterday.
-
There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps.
-
As morning broke in the windowless Bedsit, Emma peered wearily out of the bed they'd shared as Michelle trumped loudly and proudly into the already stale air.
-
The simple task of sealing the hole inexplicably drained him of energy and he leaned back against the rock wall of the cave and sighed wearily.
-
Sitting in her house full of the toys and clutter of three boisterous children, a mother shakes her head wearily.
-
An elderly, white-haired doctor climbed wearily out.
Times, Sunday Times
-
She sniffed wearily at the smell of smoke, sweat and beery farts and opened the window.
-
England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
-
As we all known that after the human infects the Type A H1N1 flu's symptom and cold is similar, the patient will appear has a fever, the cough, wearily, to have a poor appetite and so on.
-
He trudged wearily on down the road.
-
Infrasonic and bare download software help desk lastly check with wearily agamic intelligibility.
MP3Board.com
-
The old tramp shambled wearily up the path.
-
The shelty shied at a line of firelight from the window, as Sim flung himself wearily on its back.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
-
Wearily, the others followed him, practically dragging themselves up the wooden steps.
-
Our tummies they was 'oller, and our' eads was 'angin' wearily,
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
-
This printing has a cancel title-page dated 1912 instead of 1911, and is the first English printing to incorporate several text corrections as described by Garrison, but is otherwise identical to the Scribners issues of 1911, and shows the expected type batter in wearily on p. 135, line 21.
-
I go, wearily, to backcomb my hair.
Times, Sunday Times
-
I gave her some chlorodyne, which she swallowed with difficulty, and left another dose ready mixed, to give her in a few hours; but about midnight they came to tell me that she was worse; and on going I found her very cold and weak, and breathing very hard, moving her head wearily from side to side.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
-
All along the path to the park, we passed people wearily trudging back.
-
Instead, I wearily picked up a broom, each sweep of the brush accompanied by a muttered curse on all builders.
-
On the other side of the table was a ghostlier form, the faint figure of an antagonist good-humouredly but a little wearily secure -- an antagonist who leaned back in his chair with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his fine clear face.
The Figure in the Carpet
-
I wearily picked it up, immediately regretting it.
-
She sat up sleepily and in deep dejection dropped her chin wearily in her hands, thinking of the day's chore.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
-
Colleen, on the other hand, hunching like a sloth, wearily dragged herself up after them, continuing to bite her hangnails.
-
London has grown wearily used to stabbings and shootings in which the innocent are all too often caught up.
The Sun
-
As for Canadians of Palestinian origin, who have not as yet had a "P" stamped in their passports by Foreign Affairs, a spokesman is wearily aware of the Harper government's malevolent indifference:
Archive 2009-08-01
