weather-beaten
Example Sentences
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Each year the birds must stay on platforms of floating ice for long enough to replace weather-beaten feathers with new, waterproof coats.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
The silvery mutton chops peeking out from beneath a weather-beaten train engineer’s cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
After being displaced from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move into the Morningside, a weather-beaten luxury apartment building in “Island City,” a sinking version of New York in the middle of all-out climate collapse.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
And ramshackle houses and fences hide behind thickets of weather-beaten manzanita and chapparal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
He looked at the faces around him, and they spun in a strange mist of color—black eyes and blue eyes, gray hair and gold and black, pink cheeks and pale ones and weather-beaten brown ones.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
