Example sentences for: harried

How can you use “harried” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Intellectuals, who had been harried by the Qin, were encouraged in their creative endeavors; with the invention of paper, the influence of their writings spread.

  • Forget every Sunday-newspaper trend story you've ever read about gentrification, or about harried metropolitans fleeing to small towns, or about good-hearted buppies returning to the 'hood.

  • You go to a movie like this for the cameos and in-jokes, for Tim Robbins popping up as a harried U.S. president or Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello emerging to croon (beautifully) "What Do You Get When You Fall in Love?"

  • 5818) in The Prologe of the Wyf of Bathe , in which that harried dame asks:

  • As one harried frequent flyer laments, "If the airplane hits a bump, you have all the salt on the wrong spot."


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