wore out

Example Sentences

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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 Anything Once by Ostrander, Isabel

Young folks don't have no consideration for the old wore-out parents.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by Work Projects Administration

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

From Friend Island by Stevens, Francis

It's an ole wore-out horn nobody wants, and it's mine, I tell you!

From Penrod and Sam by Tarkington, Booth

"It do seem a pity he ben't a young orphan female instead of a wore-out old man, for then he cud move on into Barradine Home and be fed on the best for naught."

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.