weather-beaten
Example Sentences
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Years of hard work have left him weather-beaten and broken.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
“I signed my Island deal on this organ here for good luck,” Crockett says, running his fingers along a weather-beaten keyboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Mr. Balcomb was a cross between an old-school naturalist and a modern environmentalist, though he looked every bit the weather-beaten fisherman: stout, with a thick white beard and facial creases like canyons.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023
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
