How to Use exhausted in a Sentence

exhausted

adjective
  • Agreed to a hand of cards even though I was exhausted from a long day.
    Ed Ternan, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Fights break out among the exhausted over who is first in line.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The Aztecs came at exhausted teams in waves a season ago.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Ellie, crazed and exhausted, emerges into the cold air in a cloud of smoke.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This is the sous chef every exhausted parent needs in the kitchen.
    Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For those who have made it to the U.S., some are exhausted and penniless.
    CBS News, 14 May 2023
  • One of them offers an exhausted woman in the desert the power of flight.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • She was exhausted from the birth, and had no one to turn to with the anxieties that plagued her as a new mother.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Are shoppers just too exhausted to keep up with it all?
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Thank you all for the well wishes - we are all blissed out happy, healthy and exhausted.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The group had already walked about 25 miles that day when members stopped, exhausted, for a break.
    Lenny Rashid Ruvaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
  • By the end of the episode, the war has drawn to an exhausted close, and the residents of the 4077th are scattering after many tearful farewells.
    Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 May 2024
  • The works for Venice had all left the studio that day, and Gibson was exhausted and emotional.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The Collina Strada show was one of the first of the week, and people already seemed exhausted.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2023
  • At night, the boy turns up in Eli’s bedroom, and the older man follows him back to the apartment of his exhausted guardian, Denise (Rosie Perez).
    Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Three feet past the finish line, the runner bent at the waist, hands on her knees, exhausted but grateful to be finished.
    Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
  • If a patient is tired or exhausted, this might be a trigger.
    By Allison Horton, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The judges — two of them Trump appointees — seemed exhausted already.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • By the end of nearly an hour trying to trip up the AI system, Meyers seemed exhausted.
    Khari Johnson, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In the early light, the silhouettes of exhausted soldiers of the 95th, covered in dust from the night’s fighting, appear like ghosts in the middle of the pines.
    Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • My favorite lyrics are the simplest, and are delivered with a kind of exhausted calm.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • What’s more, he’s added to an already exhausted canon without bringing much of anything new to the shelf.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Injured and exhausted, Lokita makes her way to a remote stretch of road and flags down a passing car.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The king is merely exhausted from holding the greatest nation in the world on his shoulders.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • One evening, Sigmund comes home from a long work trip abroad and finds Maria frustrated and exhausted.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, nine exhausted climbers died on Everest after queues built up of climbers going up and down.
    Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
  • Booker was on the court for all but three minutes of rest, and somehow never looked exhausted late in the fourth quarter.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of the night everyone is satisfied, exhausted, or both.
    Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That’s what people think of as the trust fund becoming exhausted.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • And me, of course, with my hollowed cheeks and exhausted appearance.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023

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