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Example sentences for "weariness"

Lexicographically close words:
weariest; wearieth; weariful; wearily; wearin; wearinesse; wearing; wearisome; wearisomely; wearisomeness
  1. For one whole day--and then of a sudden weariness fell upon her.

  2. Her depression was increased by the desperate physical weariness of the hunt.

  3. In her very weariness there was a voluptuous feeling that the air was dissolving the stains of the office.

  4. She was conscious, almost with a physical sensation, of her mother; wanted to hold her close and, in the ecstasy of that caress, squeeze the office weariness from her soul.

  5. Outwardly, she was the blithest passenger on the steamer, and daily she held a sort of salon for the few other passengers who were doomed to the heat and the weariness of such a voyage.

  6. He felt a great weariness in his bones and body now.

  7. Even in his weariness he fought madly against the thought that Nada was dead and he repeated the word "impossible--impossible" so often that it ran in sing-song through his brain.

  8. Lushington was opened in the Sessions House, and it continued without weariness or falling-off all through the progress of the civil suit, beginning again with freshened zeal with the commencement of the criminal trial.

  9. Slowly he recalled himself to his surroundings; with a suggestion of weariness he sat up and reviewed the little company that hung so breathlessly upon the issue of his judgment.

  10. Sofia gave a gesture of weariness and confusion.

  11. Una thought again of the cool dark pond in the wood, with a sense of desire; but her exceeding weariness and languor kept her still.

  12. There they forgot the deceits of civilization and the weariness of mind that comes of too much reading; there the brain was refreshed, the nerves calmed, and the moral fibre strengthened.

  13. After a moment's contemplation of it, the body forgets its weariness and the soul is rocked in tranquillity.

  14. She herself, a much travelled, a learned, a brilliant, even a famous woman, had become only lately conscious of a certain jaded weariness in her outlook upon life.

  15. A sense of intolerable weariness swept over him as he rose to bid her good-by.

  16. Believe me, it is the type of a life that glides into solitude, from the weariness and fretful turmoil of the world.

  17. I may, at times, feel the weariness of existence--the tedium vitae; but I know well that the cause is not to be remedied by a change from tranquillity to agitation.

  18. After awhile, Patience too, feeling numb and drowsy with the weariness of this long afternoon, closed her eyes and fell into a kind of stupor.

  19. He was still very pale and there were a few lines of weariness and of bodily pain round the firm, sensitive mouth, but his grey eyes, deep-sunk and magnetic, glowed with the keen fire of intense excitement.

  20. He looked ruefully at his stained clothes, and a quaint, pleasant smile chased away the last look of weariness and suffering from his face.

  21. Like Moses, they had for their portion only the pain and weariness of the wilderness, leaving to us the fruition of the promised land.

  22. Christ's fair elect one, from a hidden life Of loving deeds and words of gentleness, Hath passed where all are loving and beloved, Beyond all weariness and all distress.

  23. But, then, if your eye had watched attentively the motions of us juveniles, you might have seen that what was so very invigorating to the disciplined Christian was a weariness to young flesh and bones.

  24. Consider this, and you will not marvel that his weariness conquered him at last.

  25. And he would listen now in silence, his face grim and sardonic; and when from very weariness the flow of her inspired oratory began to falter, he would deliver ever the same answer.

  26. But she would soon have got over both weariness and tedium had her aunt been kind.

  27. But in the long run weariness overcame disquiet, and when the servant came to our room in the morning, we were both in a profound sleep.

  28. Nevertheless weariness overcame me, and, when the reveille sounded, I was fast asleep.

  29. The Notions of Norah would be a taking title," laughed Marion, the weariness gone from her face.

  30. What agonies a man must have gone through in whom neither the horror of falling into such a river, nor of the knife in the flesh instinct with life, can extinguish the vague longing to wrap up his weariness in an endless sleep!

  31. His weariness and his headache had vanished utterly.

  32. With a feeling of mortal weariness I said to myself: "And is this all!

  33. I felt a great weariness when I thought of the many lessons it would be necessary for me to prepare before Sunday came again.

  34. A dreadful weariness was stamped on her face.

  35. As soon as he was alone his smile faded and an expression of deathly weariness took its place.

  36. Hast thou not yet begun thy prime, and art thou already taken with weariness of life?

  37. For his soul could not forget his calamity, it was fain to cast off its sickness, and was racked with weariness of life.

  38. Then he added that the queen would be a weariness to him, and that the daughter of Gotar had taken his liking.

  39. We had passed it in all the enjoyment which can be derived both from the senses and the mind, and never had one single instant of weariness caused either of us to be guilty of that sad symptom of misery which is called a yawn.

  40. The rest of his life must have been divided between weariness and hunger, but no doubt he often said, 'Dum vita superest, bene est'.

  41. You must know that I like society as much as you do, and I do not feel inclined to die of solitary weariness in your house.

  42. He stayed a week, and I should have died of weariness if it had not been for my daily visits to the Baron del Mestre.

  43. My weariness will oblige us to stay here for three days; then we shall go to Rome by the way of Turin, where we shall pay our devotion to the Holy Sudary.

  44. It is the weariness of a journey, the constant monotony, that makes one do something to make sure of one's existence; and when it comes to the reckoning there is usually more joy than repentance.

  45. Envy is a low passion which no one ever avows; to punish it in any other way than by its own corroding venom, I would have to torture everybody at Court; and weariness is the punishment of sloth.

  46. Full of this thought not worthy of a Christian (for God bids us forgive our enemies) my weariness made me sleep, and in my sleep I had a vision.

  47. I went out and walked for two hours, until the approach of night and weariness made me stop short at the house of a farmer, where I had a bad supper and a bed of straw.

  48. I had walked for more than three leagues when hunger and weariness made me stop at a village inn, where I had an omelette cooked.

  49. Amidst the idleness and weariness of Spessa I happened to meet a very pretty and very agreeable young widow.

  50. Venier advised me not to neglect such friends in a country where weariness of life was more deadly to foreigners than the plague.

  51. Not knowing what to do with myself, I would gamble, and I almost invariably won; but, in spite of that, weariness had got hold of me and I was getting thinner every day.

  52. Intense thought and weariness of mind, aided by the unbroken stillness of the place, made me heavy and drowsy.

  53. A feeling of indescribable weariness swept over him.

  54. After the necessary dispositions for the night had been made, the men, wrapped in their cloaks or having donned their heavier coats, in utter weariness threw themselves upon the ground.

  55. In spite of their weariness a shout greeted the prank of Dennis and caused the young Irishman to laugh loudly.

  56. Under these circumstances I fancied sleep impossible; but habit and weariness are strong persuaders, and when I reached my lodging I slept long and soundly, as became a man who had looked danger in the face more than once.

  57. But we had other things to think of, and between anxiety and weariness had clean forgotten the matter when we rose next morning.

  58. Yet as he reached the camp, now very dim in the twilight, a deadly sense of weakness and weariness was stealing over him.

  59. For a while neither weariness nor fear smote her.

  60. Richard turned to the Bishop, who in sheer weariness had ceased chanting.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weariness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anemia; apathy; atony; boredom; cowardice; debility; drowsiness; dullness; ennui; exhaustion; eyestrain; fatigue; hebetude; impotence; indifference; languor; lassitude; lethargy; listlessness; melancholy; passivity; phlegm; prostration; sleepiness; sloth; slowness; softness; somnolence; spleen; strain; stupor; tire; torpor; weakness; weariness