How To Use Wearying In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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.
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They have all seen advertising revenue decline significantly and executives believe the constant diet of down news is wearying readers and advertisers.
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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.
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing.
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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)
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All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency.
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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
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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
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This is infinitely more wearying than it was in the first series.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a while this constant humility becomes a little wearying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, it’s cute that Miley shows up in a cravat and acts like he’s the offspring of AA Gill and Boris Johnson, but affectation is wearying.
Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times
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All the laborious editing serves slight purpose, and presents the wearying phenomenon of a spoof of a schlock genre that is virtually a parody of itself.
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He was there barely a year, when his father, wearying of Richmond and respectability, and sighing for the shooting and boar-hunting of French forests, felt that he had sacrificed enough on account of an English education for his boys, and resolved to bring them up abroad under the care of a private tutor.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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The background: If you find Kylie's almost relentless determination to be the perkiest pop girl on the planet – and at the age of 42, no less – a tad wearying, then you need Rosanna, who sounds as though she's permamently in the throes of an existential crisis, and is only 22.
Rosanna (No 826)
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It is like the same author's massive hardback Thomas Cranmer, which can be read only at a table or by those with strong and unwearying wrists.
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I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
Wuthering Heights
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After then wearying and fatiguing myself with grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdained 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 I tossed and threw about my limbs in proportion to the distraction of my dreams, as I had reason to believe I did, a bystander could not have helped seeing all for love.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
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Lembit alone is the kind of wearying bore I would hack my own arm off to escape if the situation demanded it.
I'm a Celebrity: what effect will Nigel Havers' exit have on the show?
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Already there are signs that he is wearying of questions about next year's duel with the Americans but the bad news for the Largs-born player is that the inquisition will intensify with each month.
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Their service to the gods was unwearying, a demanding ritual calendar fervently celebrated.
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This gorgeous, glittering thing, this mechanical wonder, this miracle of gears and gems, never wearying.
Monday
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He carries around a great vat of nervous energy that makes him at least as wearying as he is scintillating company.
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As Gilliard recalled: "It was not that her sisters loved their mother any less, but Tatiana knew how to surround her with unwearying attentions and never gave way to her own capricious impulses.
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The tone is unrelievedly negative, with the unflattering contrasts between appearance and reality a constant and at times wearying tattoo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great the first couple of times, wearying after that.
Times, Sunday Times
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In truth, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston.
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In the islands in the Seine between Chatou and Port-Marly, on the banks of Sartrouville and Triel he was long noted among the population of boatmen, who have now vanished, for his unwearying biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship, his unfailing practical jokes, his broad witticisms.
Une Vie
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I had tramped miles and miles, in the hope of wearying myself so that I could sleep and forget.
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Wearying of the spear, we trolled for swordfish with hook and line, or used the baitless hook to entice the sportful albicore, or dolphin, whose curving black bodies splashed the sea about us.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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But to get those robust salaries, railroaders put up with wearying schedules, physical work and unpredictable assignments.
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EU integrationists by direct comparison seem very trustworthy indeed - even if some are wearying of their noble duties.
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The staging is kind of wearying too, and the arrangement is early-'70s crass, but at least it's entertaining.
What the '70s Called a Hit Musical
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But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.
Nineteen Eighty-four
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The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne.
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Having spent a year immersed in the event, Sloan is wearying of the same old arguments, revisiting debates she thought were closed years ago.
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She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country.
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Excuse me therefore, dear Sir, that I cannot accept your invitation to the Liverpool Musical Festival, inasmuch as I cannot in any way think of wearying the public with my "whilom" piano-playing.
Letters
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For the unwearying biographer of Vladimir Nabokov, gathering his subject's documentary remains meant a commute to Montreux, Switzerland, and to Cornell University, from his home in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Still, even when it veers into the realm of Spinach TV — so good-for-you that it feels more dutiful than good — OWN is by and large a refreshing respite from the wearying, soul-numbing cable norm, which often exploits and celebrates our worst behaviors.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Thus he spake, and straightway they ceased from such words and gave unwearying labour to the oar; and quickly they passed by the swiftly flowing river Rhebas and the peak of Colone, and soon thereafter the black headland, and near it the mouth of the river Phyllis, where aforetime
The Argonautica
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I trust, that I have not extended this privilege beyond the grounds on which I have claimed it; namely, the conveniency of the scholastic phrase to distinguish the kind from all degrees, or rather to express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude; or secondly, for the sake of correspondence in sound in interdependent or antithetical terms, as subject and object; or lastly, to avoid the wearying recurrence of circumlocutions and definitions.
Biographia Literaria
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The brassworks was hard — one sat, but the foot exercise was wearying and the seat fearfully uncomfortable.
Working With the Working Woman
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His wearying recourse to the one-liner is the literary equivalent of tossing choc drops to the reader.
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The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence.
The Golden Apple Tree
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And while it makes for a fascinating listen, it also makes for a wearying one.
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You'd find the sly looks to camera wearying.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had been something more than "wearying," -- that dull pain that had ached at Lilias 'heart since they parted.
The Orphans of Glen Elder
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You'd find the sly looks to camera wearying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless.
Pride and Prejudice
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Willoughby in outwearying: she asked herself how much she had gained by struggling: -- every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force, and rendered her less able to get the clear vision of her prospects, as though it had sunk her deeper: the contrary of her intention to make each further step confirm her liberty.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible — devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all.
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He has died in harness, as befits one of the most strenuous and unwearying workers of his time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most celebrated and the most accomplished brought to that darkened chamber their highest knowledge with ever renewed and unwearying effort.
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The letters, which told the bairns, in their Canadian home, that their dear friend was ill, and "wearying" for them, told them little of the terrible suffering of that time.
Janet's Love and Service
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If we both live long enough, Doctor, you may see me on the topmost rundle, for I shall climb with unwearying effort.
The Allen House
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You'd find the sly looks to camera wearying.
Times, Sunday Times
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And that discussion turns, with wearying repetition, on the ways in which Canadians are not like Americans.
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible -- devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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But it gets simply wearying seeing this over and over again.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
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He threw himself into his studies with an ardour scarcely credible ” devoting twelve hours a day to Hindustani, and outwearying two munshis.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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And then she added that she thought his mother was "wearying" to see him, and that he should go home soon.
Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
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I did not call her unfeeling long, for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master, as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
Wuthering Heights
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Great the first couple of times, wearying after that.
Times, Sunday Times
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The phrasemaking could be wearying.
Times, Sunday Times