weather-beaten
Example Sentences
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Years of hard work have left him weather-beaten and broken.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
“I signed my Island deal on this organ here for good luck,” Crockett says, running his fingers along a weather-beaten keyboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
The man Sotheby’s considers the owner of the van Gogh lives in a Shanghai apartment complex where gray tiles and grimy grout frame a weather-beaten door.
From New York Times • May 29, 2023
They were old and weather-beaten local faces, lined and brown and composed harshly, tight-lipped, unforgiving, determined that he should do this thing.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
