threadbare

Example Sentences

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Years of squeezed spending in some areas leaving some parts of the public services threadbare.

From BBC

Backlogs, treatment delays, funding gaps and an unhappy workforce have created an increasingly threadbare and overstretched system.

From Seattle Times

“Community is a very threadbare word right now, but the connection is real.”

From New York Times

And he veered into obscure personal jibes, describing one of the report’s claims as “an argument so threadbare it belongs in one of Bernard Jenkin’s nudist colonies.”

From New York Times

But the cast list is more threadbare than he would have wanted.

From BBC