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    Use "well-worn" in a sentence

    well-worn example sentences

    well-worn


    1. Professional mourning women dressed from head to toe in weeds, their wretched faces the colour of putty, snivelled and wailed with all the drama of a well-worn Greek tragedy


    2. At eye level, through a well-worn avenue between some old twisted trees, we could see the flat of a beach and we knew we had arrived


    3. halls of pain, and he likes to relax in a well-worn armchair that


    4. Down the hill they went, following a well-worn path that many had taken all their lives


    5. She knew this landscape as intimately as the well-worn creases of the reins beneath her fingers, but how could she spot the horses in this chaos? What if they lay injured, mired in the mud?


    6. As the small group made its way along the well-worn paths of Brockenhurst Forest they were followed by a skulking figure


    7. The well-worn train seats smelt of the morning rush hour


    8. Ferguson searched through the drawers of his desk for some time before he pulled out some well-worn envelopes that had been clipped together


    9. He bought a worn suit for himself, together with two extra shirts and another pair of trousers, a pair of shoes that he guessed were German military issue, and some well-worn underwear and socks


    10. With that, they left, Jorge leading and Beth right behind, on a well-worn and muddy trail into the jungle

    11. It is a well-worn path, but not wide


    12. Actually all three were passes through the mountains that merged on our side and followed a well-worn path through the mountains toward the east


    13. The next morning we joined John and he led us into the woods along a well-worn path


    14. Pa helped Nyla up a well-worn set of cement steps that had


    15. Suddenly a female elf appeared before her in well-worn armor of plain steel, with many expertly done repairs about it here and there


    16. On his feet were well-worn gumboots, with a floppy cloth cap on his head


    17. One skeleton wore what appeared to be a decayed and well-worn baseball glove


    18. The only area accessible to the sea lay directly behind the compound, a sun-bleached strip of white sand linked by a well-worn path


    19. He would automatically raise well-worn Civil Rights arguments


    20. These were badly turned out troops in well-worn, even threadbare uniforms

    21. The blisters on my feet began to sting, rubbing against the inside of my well-worn trainers as I marched the pavements, all the while the afternoon sun hammering down on me as the sweat poured out of my body


    22. tracks as the small car slid sideways on the well-worn pavement before


    23. For this time period, she was truly flying in high fashion and contrasted sharply with the French pilots, who wore well-worn flying coveralls and simple floatation vests, plus hard helmets with separate goggles


    24. daunting than the well-worn textbooks were the papers that my students


    25. Into the woods they walked, mom and her two little ones, on a well-worn path trod most nice days


    26. A teenage girl wearing a simple, well-worn dress got up to greet the newcomers with a forced smile as Jean de Chambriand made the presentations


    27. seat was a well-worn seventy years old


    28. Wooden platforms about one foot high and covered with well-worn cushions were used to sit on for prayer and meditation


    29. Brother Matthew’s well-worn copy of the Introduction to the Devout Life was discovered by her near a campfire site over at Beltzville Lake


    30. Locke’s and Jade’s Manual was well-worn

    31. ‘Oh, how people wear moral blinkers, of the well-worn kind,’ she felt, as her thought process had brought her face-to-face with the reality of life


    32. Oh, why it didn’t occur to me before I destroyed all that money? If only we learn from nature; won’t all trees brave the vagaries of weather to bear their fruits to serve the species? But ravaged by the vicissitudes of life, how I had lost the opportunity to bestow the bounty to the needy; even otherwise, man is inexorably distancing himself more and more from the nature by dwelling in excuse me for the well-worn phrase, the concrete jungles


    33. She drank him in, taking in the t-shirt that stretched across his broad chest, the well-worn jeans with stress points faded almost white, and the dirt smudge on his cheek she wanted to reach out and brush away


    34. The well-worn steps gave way to the soles of his shoes and launched him in to the building, he smiled like 100


    35. the well-worn leather, dulled bronze cross of his


    36. I pulled out my old, well-worn copy of Alice in Wonderland


    37. Okay, I had been wearing a flannel shirt, along with my favorite faded Levi’s and a pair of well-worn boots, whereas she’d had on a denim mini-skirt, tight top, and wedges


    38. We leave the well-worn track and Babsie drives the machine up the side of the nearest hill


    39. She had on a red dress that fitted her well, a jacket, as if she were about to leave the house, and wore a well-worn pair of shoes


    40. For certain impressions it probably will never be bettered, but it is a very well-worn convention

    41. As her horse jogged the well-worn road through the forest, she thought over what she knew about the illness and how to combat it


    42. He opened a well-worn oxblood wallet to reveal a solitary lottery ticket with the number 46172


    43. They made a pretty picture in the western light which brought out the brightness of the apples on the old scant-leaved boughs—Mary in her lavender gingham and black ribbons holding a basket, while Letty in her well-worn nankin picked up the fallen apples


    44. Now there were thousands of willing hands of all ages, from the small but nimble ones of the hobbit lads and lasses to the well-worn and horny ones of the gaffers and gammers


    45. He had her take a seat on a small couch and he sat in a well-worn red leather chair


    46. It was evident that everything was being used for the first time and had been bought just for the trip, with the exception of the well-worn belt of dark brown leather, which Fermina Daza noticed at first glance as if it were a fly in the soup


    47. It was that of a stocky orderly in a well-worn uniform without buttons and old galoshes instead of boots


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