tattered

Example Sentences

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I reach my row, where a guy—whose hair is longer, prettier, and darker than mine—is folded into the window seat, reading a tattered paperback about modern Indigenous music.

From Literature

Not so long ago, tattered old maps of Africa’s most remote mining regions would conjure up images of Allan Quatermain cutting his way deep into the jungle in search of King Solomon’s Mines.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I work so hard,” said Barrueto, who on a recent afternoon was cooking beans in a pair of tattered jeans.

From Los Angeles Times

But in Tawila, an AFP journalist gathered rare testimonies from five former detainees, speaking to them inside fragile shelters of straw and tattered fabric.

From Barron's

But we sense from her tattered sweater and blank stare a disconnection.

From Los Angeles Times