Example Sentences

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Some experts want to maintain and expand wastewater surveillance to stay on top of future waves at state and local levels, even as the public has wearied of COVID-19 mitigation efforts.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

But none reported seeing anything, using some version of a mantra that has wearied generations of Bronx detectives: “Heard shots, saw nothing.”

From New York Times • May 7, 2016

Dorothy Sayers, alas, has wearied of the detective story and has turned her attention elsewhere.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Maybe because the world has wearied of helicopter parents who coddle and dote on their offspring, comedy shows are increasingly mining the humor of adults’ treating adorable children callously and even with contempt.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2012

And his livelong and vain pursuit of this has wearied him so much that he has no strength left to realise earthly love.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)