fed up
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Mike Pickering was fed up with listening to "absolute turgid indie bands playing rubbish music" when he stumbled across a sound that excited him.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Student Shahin Nampoor was fed up with mounting costs and varying prices, not to mention the current impasse in bringing the war to a definitive end.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
“I was fed up with the kitchen thinking they were better than front-of-house,” she told me, on speakerphone, from the home they now share.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Joshua Halliburton, a 33-year-old who works in information security, started getting fed up with the prices at the Whole Foods near his apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the past few years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
We kick the bladder up and down the meadow till there are holes and rags start falling out and we get fed up kicking a bladder that’s hardly there anymore.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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