jet-lagged
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Chelsea only arrived home in London at six o'clock on Thursday morning after their long flight back from Baku and, despite Maresca's switches, they looked jet-lagged in the first half.
From Barron's
He’s been in the U.S. barely 24 hours since landing from a workout-filled vacation on the Croatian island of Krk, and he’s not jet-lagged, puffy or prowling for a Cinnabon.
Early in the week, Pogacar looked a little jet-lagged during the individual time trial competition—that’s the one with the funny helmets, in which they compete for the fastest time against the clock.
The jet-lagged stranger next to me nodded off for a nap.
From Los Angeles Times
The Brutalist's Brady Corbet might have won best director, but he said he was slightly too "jet-lagged and exhausted" to fully process it.
From BBC
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