bone-tired
Example Sentences
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I suffered nausea, sickness, headache and then - because of all the steroids I had to take - I couldn't sleep at night despite being bone-tired.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with no replacements to relieve them.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
No matter how bone-tired she was, Cotten would bring out her guitar — not so much for her own pleasure, but to help keep order.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
Inside the aircraft hangar, bone-tired children sprawled across a patchwork of green Army cots, some stained from babies in need of diapers.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2021
I’m bone-tired from cranking on that winch but too excited to go to bed yet, so I go out on the dock and stand there under all the stars and admire the boat.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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