Use of threadbare in Sentences. 28 Examples

The examples include threadbare at the start of sentence, threadbare at the end of sentence and threadbare in the middle of sentence

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threadbare at the end of sentence


  1. The coat is worn threadbare.
  2. He wore his coat threadbare.
  3. The carpets had worn rather threadbare.
  4. He had thrummed upon this topic till it is threadbare.
  5. China's record as a citizen of the world is threadbare.
  6. The deposit remains uniform State to prevent imprinted threadbare.

threadbare in the middle of sentence


  1. Pride may lurk a threadbare cloak.
  2. Pride may lurk under threadbare cloak.
  3. She stood shivering in her threadbare dress.
  4. Pride may lurk under a threadbare not cloak.
  5. She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
  6. The sheets lay tangled, hanging down on the threadbare carpet.
  7. Honor had written to ask for some threadbare rugs to be replaced.
  8. There was a clean but threadbare rug on the floor beside the bed.
  9. The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.
  10. I preferred threadbare hand-me-downs to clothes that exuded boredom from every seam.
  11. Neville rose from his seat and padded across the threadbare carpet to the whisky optic.
  12. He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light.
  13. A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor, and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.
  14. It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet, some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore.
  15. Not even his close friends knew of his secret investments as he led the life of a threadbare clergyman.
  16. They basked like reptiles till the sun penetrated the threadbare material and warmed them into movement.
  17. As Britain's imperial pretensions became threadbare most of us made the break and entered the post-imperial world.
  18. He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.
  19. The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed, a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.
  20. Increasingly, threadbare public-school systems are turning to parents for goods and services that taxpayers have stopped providing.
  21. Despite her bleak background and threadbare, Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.
  22. The gaslights flickered softly, and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.

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