shabby

Example Sentences

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Starting pay for its nurses averages close to $120,000, which isn’t shabby even in a city with a high cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Carey, meanwhile, has generated 692 million streams — not too shabby, of course, but still not measuring up to the Canadian crooner.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

In a flashback, Martini is seen leaving his shabby Potter-owned apartment with a goat and a troop of kids for a suburban tract home that Bailey developed and sold to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Series creator Sterlin Harjo superbly utilizes Ethan Hawke’s magnetism as Lee Raybon, a shabby, perpetually bruised citizen journalist sniffing around conspiracies the rest of the world would rather ignore.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

Still, I never got over the shabby waiting room and the long wait I had to endure before seeing him.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals