weather-beaten

Example Sentences

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“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

The dune shacks of Truro and Provincetown have long stood apart from the Cape’s soaring real estate market as weather-beaten symbols of a bohemian past and a rich literary and artistic heritage.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

It only take 10 minutes to drive from end to end, but it is not insular and there's a sense this rugged, weather-beaten landscape bears more than its fair share of our national weight.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2023

All Clara had to do to see her uncle was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten and thin, with a pirate’s mustache through which his strange, sharklike smile peered out at her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende