tattered
Example Sentences
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Near the door sat a huge chair covered with a pile of tattered quilts.
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In the next to last cage crouched an enormous orange-and-white cat with tattered ears and a swollen eye.
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I brought Alice in Wonderland from a tattered series of picture book classics.
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He wore a clean suit, tattered at the sleeve and lapel, and his voice had authority in it.
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A tattered red book that used to belong to my dad.
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