shopworn

Example Sentences

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Expect a setlist of shopworn classics from the 79-year-old singer.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

“Knowledge is power” might be a shopworn cliché, but when it comes to emergencies, it’s absolutely true.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Unlike in Shekar’s “In Love and Warcraft,” a romantic comedy produced locally by No Rules Theatre Company in 2015, the narrative twists and rhythms in “Nice Indian Boy” feel shopworn and predictable.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

According to a shopworn saying of indeterminate age, “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway