What is "jet-lagged"

Usage examples of "jet-lagged".

He had to be both jet-lagged and stressed out, but none of that showed in his face.

She was jet-lagged and exhausted, having spent the previous forty-eight hours without sleep, her head in the toilet while food poisoning ravaged her until she devoutly wished to die.

She yawned, pretending to be jet-lagged from the long flight from America.

Despite having slept for a solid fifteen hours the night before, taking full advantage of a private room provided by Chrysalis, she was still feeling kind of jet-lagged this morning.

If only she wasn’t so jet-lagged, having flown all the way to Iceland with the rest of the Soviet delegation.

I hope my jet-lagged son here in the fourth row, who has heroically stayed awake during this dull talk, will one day be a pilot, a tayass in the Israel Air Force, as his brother is now training to become one.

Or maybe it's the twenty-second, jet-lagged and dazed by spurious suspended animation and relativistic travel.

The Marines told themselves that the two newly arrived admirals and the new CIA puke had to be as jet-lagged as they'd been upon arrival, not knowing that Maxwell, Greer, and Ritter had flown a VIP transport most of the way, taking the Pacific in easier hops, with drinks and comfortable seats.

The lady of the house fixed breakfast, always the best meal for the jet-lagged, while her husband launched a discussion of Pushkin, delighted to find that, like many Russians, Grishanov was a serious devotee of poetry.