become threadbare
Example Sentences
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Some are making clothes that are so irresistible customers will want to wear them forever, or at least until they become threadbare.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019
The house had become threadbare from the Johnsons’ five years of incessant entertaining and the influx of seven million tourists after John F. Kennedy’s death.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2016
As if life had become threadbare, with the light peeking through.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2010
Should the committee's recommendations be accepted, most of the former colonies that imperial viceroys once bestrode will become threadbare outposts of salesmanship diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
My clothing had become threadbare, and my hat and boots were worn to such a dilapidated condition, that I became every day more ashamed to pay my visits to Lenore.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
