wearily

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wearily Their two young kids walked wearily throughout the car. Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearily
Adverb
  • Last month, Gandalf the Grey actor Ian McKellen casually dropped a bombshell bit of casting news on the unsuspecting crowd at a London fan event at the convention For the Love of Fantasy.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Dress it up with heeled booties, or wear it casually with sneakers.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Several rivulets flowed lazily through the debris.
    Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Amid hunting for clues on the case, Tom hunches over his desk, lazily shoveling sausage-and-onion sandwiches into his mouth.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Dimension 20 airs its actual play in neater, more digestible two-hour episodes, as opposed to playing out languidly in real-time like Critical Role.
    Dana Reboe, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Their survival to this day tells us Mars' mantle has evolved sluggishly over billions of years.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Wearily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wearily. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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