overworn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Where lines like “don’t give up; don’t stop believing; keep the faith” can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener’s heart like the Grinch on Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
And, overworn, he slept the livelong day, Nor waked until the twilight shadows fell, That flung a brown night o'er that leafy dell.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
I watched thee when the fever glazed thine eyes, Yielding my couch and stretched me on the ground, When overworn with watching, ne'er to rise From thence if thou an early grave hadst found.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
On the evening previous, Ezra Bushnell, overworn by many attempts at navigating the machine, was taken seriously ill.
From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.
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