timeworn

Example Sentences

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Adorned with timeworn red carpeting and wood-paneled walls, the local watering hole is one of few left in the area, and patrons are all on a first-name basis.

From Seattle Times

But the argument also bore a striking resemblance to timeworn logic offered in defense of a wholly different industry: the “guns don’t kill people; people kill people” catchphrase, often deployed by the National Rifle Association.

From Seattle Times

Her interest in this complicity seems genuine, and the question she returns to, though timeworn, has no easy answer: How do we thrive — ethically — in a society that runs on exploitation?

From New York Times

Before the pandemic, I'd often pop by for an after-work margarita — arriving as close to opening time as possible to snag one of only 15 timeworn barstools lining the lipped wood bar.

From Salon

Like tourism ads, these arguments push New York’s timeworn brand of hustle and bustle, lights and crowds.

From New York Times