moth-eaten

Example Sentences

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Edith Wharton is a moth-eaten gown in the musty attic of American literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

We’re more taken by the scenes in which her father, Stellan Skarsgård’s faded filmmaker Gustav, dusts off his moth-eaten charisma to charm Elle Fanning’s Hollywood starlet into doing his new project.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

The curtain your brother is hiding behind is moth-eaten and flimsy.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

After about four hours, he found his name on the last page of a moth-eaten book.

From BBC • May 29, 2023

Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie