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

To accommodate the visitors, St. Edward sets out beside the grave, loosely arranged as if around a campfire, a pair of weather-beaten wooden prie-dieux, an iron garden bench and a tilting patio chair.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown