tattered

Example Sentences

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People tied their prayers to the branches: a piece of tattered skirt, the edge of a collar.

From Literature

And Essa, who wisely guided me from the tattered pages of a book.

From Literature

As their last act, they lowered and packed the ship’s tattered American flag.

From Literature

The woman took stock of my tattered clothes and overall filthiness.

From Literature

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