outworn

Example Sentences

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“I had outworn my usefulness,” Watt said of his decision, adding that others “wouldn’t get off my case” about his insulting coal advisory panel comment.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021

Instead he falls back on older ones, long outworn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2017

And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison