How to Use tired in a Sentence

tired

adjective

• The children were tired after the hike.
• She's too tired to go out tonight.
• We had to listen to the same old tired excuses again.
• I was really tired after the long trip.
• The teen was hot and tired and asked to stop on the way home for a slushy.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• And of course, a world that has kind of grown tired of all of this.
  — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• By the time the two arrived in Orkney, both were tired.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 31 May 2022
• The two of them had clear, bright eyes in spite of their tired faces.
  — Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
• The last of the tired frigates will likely serve until 2040.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• My son was tired and overwhelmed and didn’t want to go.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• Austin's gonna be very tired at the end of the week, but his work on our field is just so nice.
  — Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2023
• Lift Foils is here to help all the surfers tired of waiting for big waves.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2022
• One of them got tired of the tilt, pulled out a roll of duct tape, and—kid you not—taped his head to the wall.
  — Patty Hodapp, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2024
• We were caked in brown, tired of moving, and still had 1,070 miles to go.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• Around noon, dozens of men with matted beards and tired eyes lined up at the front.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• The nations of the West, though tired of war, might have a new conflict on their hands.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2022
• Even if Macaulay Culkin is just an adult now, too tired to run an Airbnb.
  — Erin Somers, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
• Gone are fine lines, wrinkles, and tired and dry skin days.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• Pushed to her breaking point, Harleen is tired of playing by the rules.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• Kansas seemed to hit a wall with fatigue and tired legs.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
• There are tired legs and long faces in the Merstham dressing room.
  — Stuart James, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
• Sometimes the best gifts for friends are tired and true classics.
  — Nicola Fumo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
• His eyes are kind but tired, his navy blue shirt a canvas of black grease.
  — Emily Zebel, Longreads, 23 May 2024
• Then in the deep stretch, the horse started to veer to the inside, a sign sometimes of being tired.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2022
• One thing is for sure—we'll never get tired of white kitchens.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 10 May 2023
• His eyes speak a thousand words like those of the ones tired of having lost too much.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 4 Dec. 2022
• Other actors were not so used to it, and would get tired.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• But after having the same tired argument over and over again with no improvements to show for it, Amy decided to call it quits with a text.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 7 Feb. 2025
• Eventually, officers caught up to the tired creature and were able to tranquilize it with a dart, the station reported.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025