Example sentences for: overworked

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

  • But overworked engineers and sleepy dispatchers aren't creative, they're simply destructive.

  • The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.

  • No mention of the flabby plot with its contrived deaths, no taking to task for the overworked prose--Ayemenem is just too far away.

  • He acknowledged, however, that perhaps there had been a letdown for his overworked staff after the extreme tension and long hours in the period of the millennium alert.

  • I begin to cleave to the well-matured story, I'm afraid; but it does have the advantage today, when the younger generations demonstrate a total lack of respect for tradition, of not being overworked by the comedians who rarely say anything funny or even clever but make up their routines to remind us of our foibles.


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