How to Use tiring in a Sentence

tiring

adjective
  • In other words, many boomers are tiring of the couch life.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • What Could Be Better The mop is top heavy and could feel tiring to push around.
    Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024
  • And the days of the Dodgers needing tiring, patchwork bullpen game plans might almost be a thing of the past.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • The Newsboys returned safe and sound after a tiring month on the road.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Plus, pairing all of your jeans with boots or heels gets tiring.
    Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2023
  • How much of criss-crossing across the country feels fun for this list, and how much of it just gets tiring?
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There are signs that a large swathe of the public is tiring of this narrative.
    Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Nonetheless, change can be tiring, and Ruscha seeks a break from it by going to the desert.
    Elisa Wouk Almino, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The tiring offensive line synced up with when the defense took over the game, and that started up front.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Grocery shopping gets tiring but I am pumped to do meal prep.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Some recruits look at the event as a party or a necessary end to a tiring process.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Cons The vacuum is bulky and tiring to use as a handheld model.
    Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The workhorses of its growth model were already tiring years ago.
    Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The whole trying-to-find-love-in-a-Christmas-town thing was more tiring than online dating.
    Chelsey Lewis, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The process of getting Thanksgiving dinner on the table can be long and tiring.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Sometimes doing Trump would get tiring, but mostly because of the fat suit and the voice, which is a burden to do just on your throat.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The ability to lift and lower a motor by the push of a button ends that tiring and sometimes painful chore when done by hand.
    Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
  • For longer hair days, the lightweight tool– weighing 1.5 ounces– makes for a less tiring detangling process.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Cleaning the bathroom can be a time-consuming and tiring task.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
  • Every once in a while, Romaine will jump in the batter's box at practice to take some cuts, before tiring.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • As the bride knew, my girlfriend had recently had eye surgery, which made social events tiring.
    Judith Martin, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Easter Sunday is one of our favorite days of the year, and all of the preparation leading up to to the holiday can be tiring.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Eventually, even Zoom was too tiring, and then he was gone.
    Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Even Antonin Scalia, who for most of his career was a champion of Chevron, showed signs of tiring of the doctrine in his later years.
    Molly Taft, WIRED, 6 July 2024
  • Most of us just type text messages back and forth, although typing long messages can get tiring.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • While using a vacuum and the hand pump both resulted in about 15% bag size shrinkage, the hand pump was quite tiring.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor Swift’s three-hour tour de force, the Eras tour, is even tiring audiences out night after night.
    Vulture, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Even when the hosts looked to be tiring, there was Ødegaard orchestrating the crowd, pleading for more support for his team.
    Ben Church, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Being outfitted for battle turned out to be even more tiring than hauling around a backpack of the same weight would've been.
    Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2011
  • Truong said her husband dropped out of college after tiring of juggling morning classes and his night job.
    Clayton Park, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024

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