How to Use world-weary in a Sentence

world-weary

adjective
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  • Sneaker wedges remind world-weary Gen Zers of a simpler era.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2023
  • Still, Farrell shoulders most of the load as a world-weary sort harboring a big secret.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-aged, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
    — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • If there’s a woman on your list who seems a little world-weary (or whose toes are known to run cold), treat her to these cashmere pink-ballet slippers that evoke fluffy clouds at dusk.
    — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In both pictures, Yeoh plays a world-weary woman doing battle with a fiery younger one, who seems to scorn her life of devotion and sacrifice.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Eddie Valiant is cut from the same cloth as many iconic hardboiled detectives, cynical and world-weary.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And Jackman, as this world-weary version of the character, turns in a sad, sweet performance that reminds the audience what made his Wolverine so iconic.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
  • Again and again, this marvelous English performer, who died on Saturday at the age of 75, located the comedy as well as the gravity in a world-weary visage.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The track’s polished but never overdone production places the focus on Patrick’s warm yet world-weary vocal, and on this essential message.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
  • His latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • His world-weary sister Emma (Natasha Wanganeen) is less hostile, but still skeptical that reopening this wound will amount to much.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Christopher Lloyd is stellar in dual roles, but the most notorious Addams is a certain sullen, world-weary daughter in a star-making performance.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Affleck, while remaining an industry pillar, acquired a secondary reputation for his world-weary grimace, seen through the lenses of the paparazzi who haunted him still.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
  • For Cench, turning violent slang into a cutesy educational shtick for digital audiences, rather than crafting world-weary street-corner narratives, could also be an incidental act of self-preservation.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023

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