Use "worn-out" in a sentence

1. worn-out knees are still working fine and for that

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2. Lay your ears back and sag in the middle like a worn-out sofa when the judge turns his attention to you

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3. Thus again the worn-out cavalry and infantry were without artillery support, in a country topographically a gunner's paradise had reconnaissance been made for the selection and preparation of suitable sites

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4. Their jabbering, and the attempt of Toral's staff officers to stay the retreat, broke the stillness as our worn-out troops were aroused by the picket fire

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5. They were obviously pulling old, worn-out, reserve machines from the depot

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6. That bat, right there, hit an old worn-out fly I had just off the water surface

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7. They could have learned that worn-out tires, size and speed can make a car

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8. old sweaters, too big jeans and worn-out sneakers onto the concrete steps of our

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9. She was a dark and slim-hipped woman, sixty-five years old but worn-out and tired, with fine legs, strong arms and feet, but large, elephant-like ears

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10. hectic with other things, worn-out, or when unpredicted things fill

11. in the corner and a couple of worn-out crayons and paper

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12. response; my worn-out and overused lame excuses of worms,

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13. The new toothbrush was not rude like Ginger, but had never seen a worn-out toothbrush before

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14. ” Before the start of Iran’s Ramadan Operation, Iraq had become fully resupplied with new Soviet weapons, and in several small ground battles had proved its superiority to Iranian forces who were running out of munitions and spare parts, and had no resupply or replacement for the worn-out equipment

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15. That was why, realized Rau, the tent of the Indian novel in English laid with the worn-out Western pegs in the loose native soil came flat at the whimper of a scrutiny

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16. 'I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak

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17. In the mirror I see my worn-out face that’s covered with filthy smudges and my hands are full with scratches

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18. One of the challenges with purchasing reprint rights is that often the products are worn-out and

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19. something so good that I don’t have to use these worn-out methods for signing

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20. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs

21. thing?” Pam asked as she held up a small worn-out piece of

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22. throbbing with ideas and we can change the worn-out old constitution, and we

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23. Jack currently was sitting in a reclined position inside of a medium gray-colored lounge chair – while his wife, Sarah, and his mother, Ellen, had found a seat on a worn-out, plaid colored couch

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24. At this very day, when men tell us that Christianity is an effete and worn-out thing, we may safely challenge them to show us anything better

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25. And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools,

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26. degraded and their soles have worn-out, leaving them unsafe for running

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27. You will be all 3, but only as the last, though a tired, worn-out crone, are you the whole

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28. The man is always taking, the woman always giving; and giving so wonderfully, in the face sometimes of dreadful disaster, of shipwreck, of death—which explains perhaps her longer persistence in clinging to the skirts of a worn-out passion; for is not the tenderer feeling on the side of the one who gave and blessed? Always, always on that side? Mixing into what was sensual some of the dear divineness of the mother-love? I think I could never grow wholly indifferent to a person to whom I had given much

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29. in a sweaty bar with worn-out furniture where you couldn’t hear what anyone was saying and you would spend upwards of nine

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30. What for? What did a woman in her sort of shoes, worn-out shoes fifty years old, want still to save herself up for? And if religion would protect her from this kind of defeatist thinking, and succeed in hoodwinking her--persuading her, she meant--that her soul, if she tried hard enough, might presently take on all the beauty, if of a different kind, her body used to have, and all its delight, of a different kind too, in living and doing and looking forward, she would be willing at least to try it

31. This old, worn-out woman two years younger than herself

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32. Like old worn-out home movies, the sprockets of his mind skipped and

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33. He was wearing jeans and a worn-out jumper

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34. {52-1} caballos; only old and worn-out horses are selected for thebull-fights

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35. promotion, he drops on the floor the worn-out toys of the day, and with glistening eyes

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36. He looked old and worn-out in a casual suit, a neck scarf in debonair style

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37. Smiled at the hand waves of the schoolchildren returning home, with their off-white apron-like school uniforms, their dusty, worn-out shoes and droopy socks, their heads shaven for the prevention of lice and expense

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38. The seniors, on the other hand, had never looked better, except for a few individuals such as Lacy Darson, whose worn-out turquoise-yellow gym shoes looked as though they needed to be replaced and Emily Liang, whose constant habit of wearing sweaters and jeans in the summer had to make her sweat uncontrollably at some point in time

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39. Thus we see the world covered with the ruins of religions and philosophies, which have each in their day been an improvement on worn-out superstitions

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40. "No doubt it is a pleasure for a worn-out profligate to describe such adventures with a monstrous project of the same sort in his mind--especially under such circumstances and to such a man as me

41. "He was a man of great talents, and of brilliant wit; but, a worn-out votary of voluptuousness, his desires became fastidious in proportion as they grew weak,

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42. worn-out jeans into cut-offs, and add rosettes and beading to t-shirts for the latest looks

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43. No sooner had this idea taken possession of him than he became more composed, arranged his couch to the best of his power, ate little and slept less, and found existence almost supportable, because he felt that he could throw it off at pleasure, like a worn-out garment

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44. At the end of two years they found themselves exhausted with the protracted campaign, their movements hampered by a lot of worn-out plant and antiquated machinery, and harassed on every side by the lower charges of the Gas Coy

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45. Now there was nothing left but these few old broken chairs and the deal table which no one would buy; and upstairs, the wretched bedsteads and mattresses whereon they slept at night, covering themselves with worn-out remnants of blankets and the clothes

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46. Lastly the inhabitants of the town (their own interest in this worn-out subject languidly reviving itself, by sympathy with what they saw others feel) lounged idly to the same quarter, and tormented Hester Prynne, perhaps more than all the rest, with their cool, well-acquainted gaze at her familiar shame

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47. Your family members and friends understand and care, but after half a week of seeing you hobbling around the house and crying in the bathroom, even they can get worn-out by it all

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48. His men were sick, starving, with worn-out, leaky boots and uniforms indistinguishable from beggars’ rags, and their fighting spirit was virtually nonexistent

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49. The material apparatus of perfected civilization which obliterates the individuality of old towns under the stereotyped conveniences of modern life had not intruded as yet; but over the worn-out antiquity of Sulaco, so characteristic with its stuccoed houses and barred windows, with the great yellowy-white walls of abandoned convents behind the rows of sombre green cypresses, that fact—very modern in its spirit—the San Tome mine had already thrown its subtle influence

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50. Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn’t working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road

51. "That curiously historic worn-out family with its ghostly legend of the coach-and-four?"

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52. Here, with the nearness of an answering smile, here within the vibrating bond of mutual speech, was the bright creature whom she had trusted—who had come to her like the spirit of morning visiting the dim vault where she sat as the bride of a worn-out life; and now, with a full consciousness which had never awakened before, she stretched out her arms towards him and cried with bitter cries that their nearness was a

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53. While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips

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54. At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker’s signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats

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55. Despite all Kutuzov’s efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days

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56. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further

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57. The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature

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58. France does not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his weddingday by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck

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59. There were worn-out Hudsons that made a noise like machine-guns when they were starting

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60. " Moreover, this being one of those "worn-out and exhausted lay fields which enjoy their sabbath," had perchance, as Sir Kenelm Digby thinks likely, attracted "vital spirits" from the air

61. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn-out China or Japan, but leads on direct, a tangent to this sphere, summer and winter, day and night, sun down, moon down, and at last earth down too

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62. “Not only did the Kremlin contain, unknown to us, a powder-magazine, but at night the worn-out and badly-placed sentries allowed a battery of artillery to enter and take up position under the windows of Napoleon

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63. ‘No doubt it is a pleasure for a worn-out profligate to describe such adventures with a monstrous project of the same sort in his mind—especially 851 of 967

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64. Sometimes, too, they wandered about in solitude, occupied apparently with their own reflections; some of them with a worn-out, pathetic look, others with a conceited air of superiority

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65. Before Petroff had succeeded in getting up to Antonoff, the latter threw him the object which had caused the quarrel—a miserable rag, a worn-out piece of lining

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66. The Lady Bountiful was also very remarkable; she came on in an old worn-out muslin dress, which looked like a rag

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67. The prince, when he heard the story afterwards, felt that he had never yet come across so wonderful a humorist, or such remarkable brilliancy as was shown by this man; and yet if he had only known it, this story was the oldest, stalest, and most worn-out yarn, and every drawing-room in town was sick to death of it

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68. The fact is, he was simply turned out—although it was all managed in such a way that he never observed that he was being thrown over like an old worn-out shoe

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69. Spanish literature has of late given us a variety of novels and romances, all of which are in their way so good that we must believe that there is a new generation of writers in Spain who are discarding the worn-out forms and traditions, and are putting fresh life and energy into works which will give pleasure to the whole world of readers

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70. But nowadays only Christians cling to a fantastic and worn-out creed as an explanation of why life is as it is, and is not otherwise

71. they no longer believed in the religion of the masses, but had no beliefs to put in place of the worn-out Church doctrine which for them had lost its meaning

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72. They were poor, worn-out things which some soldier had given him, and his wife did not glance at him as she handed them to him

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73. But art transmitting feelings flowing from antiquated, worn-out religious teaching,—Church art, patriotic art, voluptuous art, transmitting feelings of superstitious fear, of pride, of vanity, of ecstatic admiration of national heroes,—art exciting exclusive love of one's own people, or sensuality, will be considered bad, harmful art, and will be censured and despised by public opinion

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74. Only then will science cease to be what it is now,—on the one hand a system of sophistries, needed for the maintenance of the existing worn-out order of society, and, on the other hand, a shapeless mass of miscellaneous knowledge, for the most part good for little or nothing,—and become a shapely and organic whole, having a definite and reasonable purpose comprehensible to all men; namely, the purpose of bringing to the consciousness of men the truths that flow from the religious perception of our times

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75. A pale sky, above the world that is ending through decrepitude, going, perhaps, to pass away with the clouds: shreds of worn-out purple of the sunsets wash off their color in a river sleeping on the horizon, submerged with rays and water

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76. While Mávra Kuzmínichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips

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77. At the corner of the Moroséyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker’s signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats

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78. Despite all Kutúzov’s efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krásnoe for three days

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79. , consists of an extensive forgery, where all the iron work for the navy is done, a lead foundry, a brass foundry, where articles are made out of worn-out old metals, which otherwise would be of no use

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