shopworn

Example Sentences

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Expect a setlist of shopworn classics from the 79-year-old singer.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

Without once invoking the shopworn term “mindfulness,” this stimulating collection makes an unusually effective tool for coming to one’s senses.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Unlike in Shekar’s “In Love and Warcraft,” a romantic comedy produced locally by No Rules Theatre Company in 2015, the narrative twists and rhythms in “Nice Indian Boy” feel shopworn and predictable.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

But on “Certified Lover Boy” they have been polished smooth, become maybe a little shopworn.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway