tatty
Example Sentences
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The gloomy, dark room had bare belongings: a rope and wood cot, a steel vessel to store grains, a clay stove sunk in the ground and a tatty clothes line.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2023
If, as he spends the book insisting, all he and Meghan ever wanted was domestic simplicity — tatty sofas, Ikea lamps — then why, upon leaving the family, did they buy a $15 million house?
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023
We know that actors are not their roles, but it still came as a shock to see Angela Lansbury backstage in bunny slippers and a tatty robe, offering visitors a nice hot cuppa.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
"Noone can stop them," mused Fane on Gran Canaria island where colourful, abandoned migrant boats contain tatty shoes, sardine tins, plastic bottles and a life vest.
From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022
A crude pair of salt-dice and a single, tatty shoe that was too small for me, but that I hoped to trade for something else.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
