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
Her most moth eaten breadth was at the back and it was difficult to cross the room without unduly exposing that back.
From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré
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
The rug was moth eaten and there was dust everywhere on the old fashioned Victorian furniture.
From Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery by Clark, Joan
