wore out

Example Sentences

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“Fontana’s rough and bumpy, and it’s wore-out surface — you have to really, really take care of your tires and move around, find different lanes that work. Here at Michigan, your tires don’t wear out quite as bad, not nearly as bad, and your line doesn’t move around a ton, but it’s really fast, got a lot of grip. “They’re both a lot of fun.”

From Washington Times

The top of the hill, as I found when first I climbed up there, was a wore-out crater.

From Project Gutenberg

Things is terrible there at home,—paw is all wore-out with the trouble, and all Blant's jobs he has to tend to, like cooking and minding the babe of nights, and he couldn't get along at all if Uncle Billy's boys didn't come down and chop wood, and feed the animals, and such.

From Project Gutenberg

An’ what is the noise I hear save one them wore-out hurdy-gurdies, that do be roamin’ the country over, soon’s ever the town gets too hot to hold ’em?

From Project Gutenberg

You can allus sell hens when they git too old to set or lay, but what’re you going to do with a wore-out incubator?”

From Project Gutenberg