wore out
Example Sentences
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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
I've darned many a 'eartfelt prayer into a wore-out pair o' stockin's before now an' offered up many a petition t' the Throne o' grace with my scrubbin' brush sloshin' over the floor.
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Farnol, Jeffery
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 mother she come near 'bout up to my shoulder and was thin and wore-out lookin'.
From The Man in Lonely Land by Bosher, Kate Langley
His buying those wore-out mines and saying he’s going to make the Forest is damaging evidence against him.
From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
