jet-lagged
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I’m not an early riser, though it’s all circumstantial if I’m working or traveling or jet-lagged.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
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 • Nov. 8, 2025
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 • Feb. 16, 2025
And in any case, she was busy, and probably jet-lagged, after traveling from her tour in Tokyo to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
Sorrow, however, was still two weeks away on that blue cross-stitch afternoon, as Margaret Kochamma lay jet-lagged and still asleep.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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