outworn

Example Sentences

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Setting recent works among older ones is an effective element of LACMA’s overall plan to shed outworn hierarchies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

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

His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2018

Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck