How to Use exhausted in a Sentence

exhausted

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • And me, of course, with my hollowed cheeks and exhausted appearance.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Tristan's exhausted by his partner already, which is not a good sign this early in the game.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Our nation will emerge from this election bruised and exhausted.
    — L. Roger Hutson, The Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Self-care Pain and inflammation can leave you exhausted or fatigued.
    — Chloe Castleberry, Flow Space, 26 Sep. 2024

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