Thesaurus / worn-out

worn-out

How to use worn-out in a sentence

Her worn-out blue petticoat is lighted up by a moonbeam; in her hand she appears to have a hoe.

But all you can think of are the horror stories about the worn out genes of Earth.

SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)

It is at best but a worn-out scarecrow shaking its vain rags in the wind.

The gallant General is not the only one who is worn out with this hopeless task.

He is actually climbing the roof, to make sure every old, worn-out shingle is replaced by a new one.

It is better to leave while all will regret you, than to linger on until you have worn out your welcome.

And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.

But the Scots did not come, and between drenching rains and lack of provisions145 his troops were worn out in body and in temper.

The carousin' lasted till daylight, and a tireder, more worn-out lot of folks than we was you never seen.

THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES

A bundle of straw and a worn-out horse-blanket which somebody had discarded formed his bed.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985