weather-beaten
Example Sentences
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Years of hard work have left him weather-beaten and broken.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
The silvery mutton chops peeking out from beneath a weather-beaten train engineer’s cap.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
To accommodate the visitors, St. Edward sets out beside the grave, loosely arranged as if around a campfire, a pair of weather-beaten wooden prie-dieux, an iron garden bench and a tilting patio chair.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022
He looked at the faces around him, and they spun in a strange mist of color—black eyes and blue eyes, gray hair and gold and black, pink cheeks and pale ones and weather-beaten brown ones.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
