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Sentence Examples Previous claims that the restoration of capitalism in the former USSR would bring democracy in its wake now look increasingly threadbare. The credibility of two of the leading actors of American monetary policy today is somewhat threadbare, to say the least. In promoting these illusions, Mr Latham is accepting the threadbare propaganda of the neo-liberal social agenda. A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll. The pose of disbelief is all the more threadbare given the facts on the ground in Iraq after more than three months of US military occupation. Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf. I have spoken to three QCs involved in the hearings, and one has stated that he found some key pieces of evidence threadbare of credibility. The allegations against Wahid were always threadbare pretexts for his removal from office. I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on. Once inside a staircase, complete with threadbare carpet, leads to a landing. He didn't find it, and just plopped down tiredly on the age-worn bed, curling up in the meagre warmth of the threadbare blanket. One old man with an almost threadbare pate and the thinnest of comb-overs even stopped to pump up his volume and then smile at the result. Most of these diarists ceased to write in 1945, but a few kept going through the threadbare peace. What parts of the floor weren't laid with threadbare rugs were scored and marked from claws. Her comments are so threadbare and banal, that her role smacks of the worst kind of tokenism. Now maybe I can toss out those flesh-colored threadbare drawers of his that always give me a fright. His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten! Raised in Cardonald, Glasgow, Mullan, and his seven siblings were working-class misfits in a grand but threadbare rented house. A sluggish middle leads to a humorous and ironic ending as the dancers swap their threadbare garb for sequinned hipsters. But even he has withdrawn to the shade of a canopy draped above a couple of threadbare sofas and that glorious moment now seems an age away. Show More Sentences I freed my arms and pushed myself up on my elbows, realizing with a start that I was dressed in a long, threadbare nightshirt. He and Ann, pausing unhappily outside in the hall, tiptoeing on the threadbare rug, could hear nothing from inside. He certainly looked the part in a threadbare dressing gown, mirroring the unredeemed Scrooge's threadbare life. She wrapped her inadequate, threadbare cape more securely around herself and pulled the hood down a little more to keep out the biting wind. The weather-beaten windows, with their peeling paint, will go, as will the threadbare carpet in the games room. The bedding was threadbare, but freshly laundered and the floor appeared to have been fitted with a new carpet. I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare. Much more needs to be done if the already rickety and threadbare credibility of the Church is ever going to be restored. He was issued with a thin mat and a threadbare blanket and taken to the cell block. Seeing only her face, not her threadbare coat, nor her worn shoes, he drew her back into his arms. The tables were chipped, the carpet is threadbare, the seats have lost all their padding and comfort. I had two dresses, one nightgown, three pair of undergarments and a thin, threadbare cloak. The wind was bitter against his bare legs and feet, and it tore straight through his threadbare clothing. The living-room is somewhat the worse for wear, with a threadbare dark red carpet. But his eyes were still bright, and his threadbare old khaki police uniform shirt still bore his many medals. It has high filigreed ceilings and threadbare carpet, a winding native wood staircase, cracked stained glass. This was a fact I informed her of as I emerged from the bathroom clutching a towel around me and dripping all over the maroon threadbare carpet. She stopped, then slowly walked over to stand in the middle of the large, round room, looking down at the threadbare area rug. Once healthy, rich and famous, he now lives in a threadbare apartment, forced to sell his sporting trophies to feed his drug habit. Sorry, but even in summer it feels a bit chilly there, like a threadbare university club that only charter members find cozy. Show More Sentences There is nothing grim or threadbare about either the building nor the attitude. His friends treated his threadbare bachelor apartment as a virtual drop-in centre. The film is set in a threadbare Australian ski resort at the fag-end of winter, well past the postcard stage. My room is pretty threadbare right now, but Rebecca promised that tomorrow we will go buy furniture for me. What we're left with is a threadbare story and a child who won't stop singing At the top of her voice All the time. In the scramble to balance the books, the already threadbare provision for non-critical cases could be stripped away. Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence. Devoid of Shane Julian and with Paul McDonald placed at midfield their defence was threadbare. The clever, jazz-tinged arrangement of New Bond Street makes up for its threadbare lyrics. The bed had a thick straw pallet for a mattress, and the sheets were threadbare and grubby, but they had slept on worse. The matrices tangle and entrap understandings of creation and knowledge to expose their threadbare construction. Magistrates and peace officers covet these symbols of authority and wear them with pride, even when they have become ragged and threadbare with age. Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations. Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white. I awoke in the forenoon, pulled on my robe and sallied forth into the kitchen where I found my friend quite naked save for a pair of the most threadbare of undergarments. While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned. When that scene imploded from drugs and violence, he continued working in low-budget theatricals, often writing, producing, directing, and dressing these threadbare plays. To be sure, for all the rumor and threadbare analyses of plays, hard irrefutable proof of match fixing would be difficult to produce in any event. The cap is certainly too threadbare to be a public appearance prop. Both our little beds are a mishmash of sheets and blankets and threadbare pillows and the floor is covered in our old sports trophies and other such junk. Show More Sentences Underneath were pictures of dockers' children in threadbare clothes. The grey carpets were threadbare and the furniture was falling apart. But the room wasn't sad and threadbare, it was full of people. As I raced back to the threadbare offices, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping. There is little a performer can do with such threadbare material. At some point, though, the formula began to grow threadbare. But on close inspection the Brown plans look pretty threadbare anyway. Unfortunately, the Cole royal commission may also end up the perfect mechanism for destroying the already threadbare authority of royal commissions. The difference between the two first sentences is the difference between a high-spirited epic of self-assertion and a slender account of the threadbare ego. Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound. Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms. On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure. Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact. A threadbare khadi jhola hangs over his shoulder, an umbrella in his hand. Children, dressed in threadbare clothes and their arms laden with gifts, seemed oblivious to the steady patter of rain and surprised at their good fortune. The General Prologue portrait calls attention to Huberd's grand and dignified appearance, so unlike a cloisterer's or a scholar's threadbare looks. Oddly, as Hewitt and Garrett continue their colloquy, they seem to expose the threadbare nature of the story, except that they manage not to notice. Two passengers rose, a brown, freckled Cornishwoman, balancing herself along the gangway with a basket of eggs, a gaunt old man in threadbare tweeds stooping after her. The threadbare plot of the film concerns a song-and-dance man who retires from showbusiness to become a gentleman farmer but finds country life more demanding than he thought. If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow. Show More Sentences When Nancy entered, she was clutching a bedhanging, her cold toes curled on the threadbare India rug by her bed. Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby. He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness. Yellowing walls, a steel almirah, a table overflowing with books, an old photograph of Zohraji on the mantelpiece and a threadbare durrie. The theological and exegetic rationales for such duplicity are by now threadbare and rotting. As parks became increasingly threadbare and the parkie an extinct breed, visitors were left feeling insecure, and the future looked grim. We're told he has just a sunlamp, a running machine and internet connection in a threadbare room inside the Knightsbridge building. Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful. Then she pulled his pants down around his knees. He had a pair of old gray-and-white tight skivvies on. They were worn and threadbare and tight around his groin. A film about a creaking Scottish reprobate in a threadbare deerstalker hat going to South Africa to bag his last big trophy would be strong enough. The traditional argument that we have nowhere else to turn also looks a bit threadbare when the affably blokeish Nigel Farage seems to pop up every time we turn on the news. Perhaps the best way for CEOs to patch up their threadbare relationships with CIOs is to give up on turning the CIO into a strategic department head. Examples from Classical Literature A place where the starving feel the pangs of gluttony, and the threadbare wear opera-hats and spats. But for my dread of a mixed metaphor I would add that they are moth-eaten and threadbare. It's a very good word, too, but sometimes I fear she will wear it threadbare. And she glanced, with pain, at his rusty and threadbare suit of black, and at his napless hat. When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare. His sentiments were, no better known in Boston than his threadbare clothes. He weighed the stories he had heard from shaky, and picked them threadbare. Such a precocious little girl, with such a dowdy bonnet on, who brought her sandalled shoes in an old threadbare velvet reticule. She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation. This last jest is so trite to-day as to be absolutely threadbare. He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool. He laid his head down on his threadbare dirty pillow and pondered, pondered a long time. Rustily drest, with his spectacles in his hand, and their very case worn threadbare. He could hear nothing, but the drip, drip on the threadbare carpet. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of threadbare? Words that rhyme with threadbare What is the adverb for threadbare? What is the adjective for threadbare? What is the noun for threadbare? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words thread thrawn thrashing thrashes thrasher thrashed threaded threadfin threading threadlike threads threadwork 10-letter Words Starting With t th thr thre threa thread threadb threadba threadbar