How to Use world-weary in a Sentence

world-weary

adjective

• The hardened look of a world-weary MI6 agent.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
• Randolph is great, the perfect combination of world-weary and done-with-it.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025
• The two singers’ world-weary voices bring a heft of believability to this sad country track.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2024
• Still, Farrell shoulders most of the load as a world-weary sort harboring a big secret.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• Tesla shares fell nearly 9% the next day, thanks to world-weary investors who had heard such overcooked claims from him before.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• Stuart’s prince is suave, worldly, world-weary, charismatic — every inch a prince, really.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
• His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry.
  — Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
• Their take on the character was not a newcomer to heroics, but a jaded, world-weary figure in his mid-40s.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
• Beulah’s not delivering world-weary pronouncements, the way Beth does.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• If there’s a woman on your list who seems a little world-weary (or whose toes are known to run cold), treat her to these cashmere pink-ballet slippers that evoke fluffy clouds at dusk.
  — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• Marcellus is really, really smart, which Molina imparts via a wry and world-weary voiceover.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
• In both pictures, Yeoh plays a world-weary woman doing battle with a fiery younger one, who seems to scorn her life of devotion and sacrifice.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• But as Natalia is thrust into an unforgiving world and forced to grow up too fast, Reid’s performance takes on a world-weary tone.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
• Annette has seen it all, providing loud, world-weary commentary while sucking down margaritas.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-age, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
  — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
• Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-aged, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
  — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
• The uplift stirs even Guthrie, whose world-weary exasperation is vastly diminished by the power of song.
  — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2025
• Everything is grounded in Turturro’s attentive but world-weary gaze.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
• The track’s polished but never overdone production places the focus on Patrick’s warm yet world-weary vocal, and on this essential message.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
• This weekend, Peter Parker is back — a little older, more world-weary and facing a far less forgiving market.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
• His latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 May 2024
• But when his disillusioned and world-weary older brother returns to town, Rusty James is forced to confront the reality of his own path.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• Berry is excellent as a world-weary mother who struggles to prepare her kids for an unforgiving world while still trying to carve out moments of the happiness that has long eluded her.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
• Lourd is arresting as a haunted, world-weary girl, who clearly craves a connection with her mother but is looking for something that Shelley simply does not have to give.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
• Then just in his early 50s, Nakadai played much older, wearing intense, ghost-like makeup to portray a desolate, world-weary warlord.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
• In the verses, Bradley Cooper and Gaga’s lyrics and vocal lines are mirrored — two world-weary cynics serenading each other.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
• His world-weary sister Emma (Natasha Wanganeen) is less hostile, but still skeptical that reopening this wound will amount to much.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• The song brims with defiance, melded with Jinks’s classic country-rock instrumentation and the burly, world-weary vocal that has become his calling card.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025
• The second interpretation purports to be more hardheaded and sensible, wiser and world-weary after so many years of watching Trump at work.
  — Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026