shopworn

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

Without once invoking the shopworn term “mindfulness,” this stimulating collection makes an unusually effective tool for coming to one’s senses.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023

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

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

A shopworn Julio César Chávez was mauled by Oscar De La Hoya, who a decade later was whipped by Pacquiao.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2021

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

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway