wing-weary

[wing-weer-ee]

adjective

1. tired from flying or traveling.

Example Sentences

Wing-weary bumblebee, rampant scullery-mouse, capering managerial wingman … it can only be Barney Ronay on Spurs v Manchester City .

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Similarly, Villas-Boas deserves credit for bringing on the more physically imposing Tom Huddlestone for a battered-looking Parker, who spent his hour on the pitch buzzing around Yaya Touré like a wing-weary bumblebee trying to bring down an articulated lorry.

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I think you must have been a little wing-weary when you wrote your last letter to me.

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Said one to me: "I seem to be— Like a bird blown out to sea, In the hurricane's wild track— Lost, wing-weary, beating back Vainly toward a fading shore, It shall rest on nevermore."

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It may show poor taste, but to me, in those regions of the upper ether wherein Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, and Shelley grow wing-weary, he soars on strong, free pinion.

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