Sentence Examples

  • Does the fabric appear threadbare in places?
  • If you or someone you know is the type of man who does not throw his underwear out until the pair is threadbare and has more holes than a sieve, men's nylon tricot briefs may just be the way to go.
  • For women who had spent several years wearing threadbare pajamas or chemises to bed, this was an unheard of opulence, and happily embraced.
  • A degenerate society cared nothing for syllogisms grown threadbare by repetition.
  • Yet there is a certain difference between this and the work of a poor artist whose designs are threadbare.
 
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