weather-beaten

Example Sentences

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“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

After being displaced from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move into the Morningside, a weather-beaten luxury apartment building in “Island City,” a sinking version of New York in the middle of all-out climate collapse.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

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

It only take 10 minutes to drive from end to end, but it is not insular and there's a sense this rugged, weather-beaten landscape bears more than its fair share of our national weight.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2023

Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë