wearying

How To Use wearying In A Sentence

• The best hope lay in wearying out the besiegers; and there seemed to be more chance of this since the Gauls often could be seen from the heights, burying the corpses of their dead; their tall, bony forms looked gaunt and drooping, and, here and there, unburied carcasses lay amongst the ruins. A Book of Golden Deeds
• Already there are signs that he is wearying of questions about next year's duel with the Americans but the bad news for him is that the inquisition will intensify with each month.
• Still, it can get wearying, being given optimistically sized underwear and too-tight tops again, and traipsing back to the returns desk with them year after year.
• They have all seen advertising revenue decline significantly and executives believe the constant diet of down news is wearying readers and advertisers.
• He writes of his tough young team working long and wearying hours, racing to identify and solve problems, always soliciting opinions from engineers and everyone else involved.
• Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing.
• After then wearying and fatiguing myself with grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdain'd to content itself with less than realities, the strong yearnings, the urgent struggles of nature towards the melting relief, and the extreme self-agitations I had used to come at it, had wearied and thrown me into a kind of unquiet sleep: for, if Fanny Hill, Part VI (second letter)
• All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency.
• But we could match the solid bones of Homo ergaster and erectus, the fleet feet of Ice Age Aboriginal men and the unwearying endurance of Athenian rowers. Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male
• Maximus knows who that ‘King’ is, even the cause and reason and primal origin of all nature, the lord and father of the soul, the eternal saviour of all that lives, the unwearying builder of his world. The Defense