shopworn

Example Sentences

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Mr. Spielberg keeps up a certain suspense via a shopworn device: withholding information known to the characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

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

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

“Knowledge is power” might be a shopworn cliché, but when it comes to emergencies, it’s absolutely true.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Yet his portraits often seem constrained within narrow, shopworn categories.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

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

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway