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How to use the word weariness in a Sentence?

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We must stay cautious, not be blindly optimistic and must not have war-weariness..., we should not reduce the vigilance against the epidemic and the requirements of prevention and control.

Chen Yixin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's sort of a world-weariness in both this season and the music video, they're both reactions to what's happening in the world.

Hiro Murai

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Thomas Dekker

added by anonymous
6 years ago

This time it was France that was attacked, there is no war-weariness in France like there is in the U.K. or the U.S. There is no sense that Chirac, (successor Nicolas) Sarkozy or Hollande has lied to the French people.

Nicholas Dungan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is no war-weariness in France like there is in the U.K. or the U.S. There is no sense that Chirac, (successor Nicolas) Sarkozy or Hollande has lied to the French people, there is no sense that the country has been taken in the wrong direction.

Nicholas Dungan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This caused anxiety and weariness to many migrants, the indifference of the Hungarian authorities triggered the situation, causing the migrants to storm the police defenses and walk their way to the nearby village, around 3 to 5 kilometers away.

Abdul Mohsen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

From the end of the Bush years up through 2013 and '14, there was a war weariness that was permeating even Republicans.

David Boaz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Paul Valéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Anaïs Nin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Arabic Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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