tattered

Example Sentences

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He wrote a 12-book series around the character, a British soldier who returns to Cornwall from the American War of Independence and rebuilds his tattered estate, reopens his father's derelict mine and finds love.

From BBC

In “Vaccine Flag,” a vertical banner arcs gracefully across a soft gradient of L.A. haze, but the banner’s fabric is so tattered and decayed that its advertisement for vaccines is barely legible.

From Los Angeles Times

Near the door sat a huge chair covered with a pile of tattered quilts.

From Literature

In the next to last cage crouched an enormous orange-and-white cat with tattered ears and a swollen eye.

From Literature

I brought Alice in Wonderland from a tattered series of picture book classics.

From Literature