shopworn
Example Sentences
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Expect a setlist of shopworn classics from the 79-year-old singer.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025
Yet his portraits often seem constrained within narrow, shopworn categories.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023
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
She found the pathos in the shopworn clichés of “Cry Pretty,” which featured actual fireworks to go along with the metaphorical kind.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2022
He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
