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

Sitting rooms spill over with tipsy sofas and moth-eaten covers, and the furniture is piled high with old-fashioned post-balloons, buckets, house-lanterns, drapery, older télétropes, bolts of lace, half-burned candles, broken spyglasses, ear-trumpets, and more.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton