Pleading exhaustion, I hurried back to my room, my mind churning with problems.

I can only plead exhaustion and a certain amount of despondence.

Pleading extreme exhaustion, Afra took the rest of the day off.

Samantha had pleaded exhaustion and stayed home, and a part of him wished he could, too.

At last, though, she freed up two or three days from Frank, pleading exhaustion.

When other men asked her to dance, Hattie refused, pleading exhaustion.

At the end of each I pleaded emotional exhaustion and said I'd grant a more complete interview in a few days.

He tried to conduct an interview, and she answered a few questions, then pleaded exhaustion.

She finally convinced him to go by pleading exhaustion.

He left the band less than two years later, pleading physical exhaustion.