Sentence example with the word 'threadbare'

threadbare

back-number, cliche-ridden, dilapidated, frayed, monotonous, prosaic, shelfworn, tacky, trite, worn out

Definition adj. repeated too often

Last update: December 12, 2016


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The carpet was threadbare in places and the room smelled stale and dirty.   [noun]

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Their eyes were on the threadbare person who was in the gathering.   [Please select]

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The man was in threadbare rugs.   [Please select]

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Therefore, even with its threadbare plot, well worth seeing.   [Please select]

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Sowerberry was a tall gaunt, large-jointed man, attired in a suit of threadbare black, with darned cotton stockings of the same colour, and shoes to answer.   [Please select]

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Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed.   [Please select]

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Across the threadbare cuffedge he saw the sea hailed as a great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside him.   [Please select]

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His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare.   [Please select]

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Mister threadbare millionnaire.   [Please select]

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It was not very threadbare even now.   [Please select]

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