harried
Example Sentences
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The Hawk fire forced the harried evacuation of more than 40,000 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
She was presented with her award by actor Richard E Grant, who played the Spice Girls' harried manager Clifford in the 1997 movie Spice World.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Initially, Joe and Angela don’t look so different from the pictures of couples we’ve seen before: harried and married, dead when they wed.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
A key measure of inflation used by the Federal Reserve to set interest rates posted the biggest increase in March in almost three years, marking another major hurdle for a resilient but harried U.S. economy.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
As I set the book on the floor, a burst of harried voices rose from deeper in the building.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing harried
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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