moth-eaten
Example Sentences
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So I open my guest-room closet door, reach in, and as I pull out Gary’s green-and-tan baseball jacket, musty and slightly moth eaten, I still feel that tinge in my gut.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2017
This whole enterprise is way, way moth eaten: the Syd Barrett/1960s Los Angeles garage-punk influences, the dirty-on-purpose sound quality, the overmodulated guitar leads.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010
"He claimed that he ordered dish-pans and that we sent rinsing-pans, and that the brushes were moth eaten."
From A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" by Maher, William H.
It always made me think of something worn out and moth eaten.
From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
She held in her withered hands the ragged, moth eaten tail of a gray wolf.
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
