shopworn
Example Sentences
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Mr. Spielberg keeps up a certain suspense via a shopworn device: withholding information known to the characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Expect a setlist of shopworn classics from the 79-year-old singer.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
“Knowledge is power” might be a shopworn cliché, but when it comes to emergencies, it’s absolutely true.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
She found the pathos in the shopworn clichés of “Cry Pretty,” which featured actual fireworks to go along with the metaphorical kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2022
He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
