wearily

Example Sentences

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An unenlightening spectacle last week saw Porter float above the fray, wearily raising her eyebrows over the squabbling among her competitors.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

“I wish I had known all this earlier,” Maggie said wearily.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 14, 2025

Indoors, people everywhere are assessing interior wind and water damage and wearily calculating how much time and money it will take to get their lives back to where they were before the storm.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

“I want this war to come to an end,” he tells us wearily in very good English.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

And when, wearily, they set off to find a vehicle of some kind to get them away from Capricorn’s village, they found all the cars had gone, too.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke