shabby
Example Sentences
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Each assignment starts in an old, shabby garage and the mission I watch is delivering water, ammunition and fuel to drone pilots.
From BBC
Poe was disheveled and wearing shabby, ill-fitting clothes that weren’t his, according to Hal Poe.
From Washington Post
“My look was like a beggar, a homeless person. I had glasses on and very shabby clothes.”
From Washington Post
They are headed for the derelict home of Leah’s late stepmother, Jean — a renegade sculptor of abstract metal towers and odd found objects, all crowded into her shabby living room.
From Washington Post
Large, rich corporations typically evade accountability for the low wages and generally shabby treatment endured by the working poor by keeping them off their payrolls.
From Washington Post
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