used-up
Example Sentences
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“It’s one of the most used-up chord sequences in the history of music,” Lanois says of “Make You Feel’s” descending progression.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023
With much of the planet already "used-up", the world has hard choices to make over how to use land in the most sustainable and effective way.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2022
Heizer, who is given to playful lamentation, complains about what New York is turning him into: “A decaffeinated, used-up, once-was quick-draw cowboy, a sissy boy who eats at Balthazar for lunch.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2016
In Slate, Laura Kipnis complained that, “Here is someone who wants to be unshackled from convention, but is tied to such used-up ideas.”
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2015
It comes out angry even though how I really feel is like a used-up tissue.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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