weatherworn
Example Sentences
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My grandmother’s shot house was frequented by men hardened by the weatherworn elements of time, those tiny particles of memory that refuse erasure.
From Salon • May 12, 2024
Explore remnants of an old railway turntable and foundations for what used to hold hotels, a powerhouse, an ore-processing plant and weatherworn, ancient-looking wood buildings in various stages of collapse.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022
Stretches of its avenues bear scars of Detroit’s dispossession: crumbling brickwork, weatherworn concrete, sun-bleached advertisements seized in time.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2022
Betsy and Andrew, who both grew up summering inshore nearby, shared an appreciation for Maine’s hardscrabble mid-coast working class, the same weatherworn fishermen and farm folk Andrew nearly obsessively depicted.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Just before sunrise I strike out across the field to Mrs. Strawberry’s weatherworn farmhouse.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
