threadbare

Wednesday are second bottom of the Championship with six points from nine games after a torrid period off the field has left them with a threadbare squad.

Its so-called institutions, among them our nation’s increasingly threadbare 18th-century Constitution, are visibly crumbling, as if eaten away from within by an army of persistent termites.

Her attorney, Abbe Lowell, dismissed the referral as “three pages of stale, threadbare allegations.”

He was being used as an emergency striker with Isak an outcast, so how can Howe contemplate a sale when resources are now so threadbare?

The talk of “crime” is even more threadbare than the usual right-wing pretexts.