skyscraper

skyscraper


    Scegli la lingua
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget

    Usa "worn-out" in una frase

    worn-out frasi di esempio

    worn-out


    1. worn-out knees are still working fine and for that


    2. Lay your ears back and sag in the middle like a worn-out sofa when the judge turns his attention to you


    3. Thus again the worn-out cavalry and infantry were without artillery support, in a country topographically a gunner's paradise had reconnaissance been made for the selection and preparation of suitable sites


    4. Their jabbering, and the attempt of Toral's staff officers to stay the retreat, broke the stillness as our worn-out troops were aroused by the picket fire


    5. They were obviously pulling old, worn-out, reserve machines from the depot


    6. That bat, right there, hit an old worn-out fly I had just off the water surface


    7. They could have learned that worn-out tires, size and speed can make a car


    8. old sweaters, too big jeans and worn-out sneakers onto the concrete steps of our


    9. She was a dark and slim-hipped woman, sixty-five years old but worn-out and tired, with fine legs, strong arms and feet, but large, elephant-like ears


    10. hectic with other things, worn-out, or when unpredicted things fill

    11. in the corner and a couple of worn-out crayons and paper


    12. response; my worn-out and overused lame excuses of worms,


    13. The new toothbrush was not rude like Ginger, but had never seen a worn-out toothbrush before


    14. ” Before the start of Iran’s Ramadan Operation, Iraq had become fully resupplied with new Soviet weapons, and in several small ground battles had proved its superiority to Iranian forces who were running out of munitions and spare parts, and had no resupply or replacement for the worn-out equipment


    15. That was why, realized Rau, the tent of the Indian novel in English laid with the worn-out Western pegs in the loose native soil came flat at the whimper of a scrutiny


    16. 'I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak


    17. In the mirror I see my worn-out face that’s covered with filthy smudges and my hands are full with scratches


    18. One of the challenges with purchasing reprint rights is that often the products are worn-out and


    19. something so good that I don’t have to use these worn-out methods for signing


    20. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs

    21. thing?” Pam asked as she held up a small worn-out piece of


    22. throbbing with ideas and we can change the worn-out old constitution, and we


    23. Jack currently was sitting in a reclined position inside of a medium gray-colored lounge chair – while his wife, Sarah, and his mother, Ellen, had found a seat on a worn-out, plaid colored couch


    24. At this very day, when men tell us that Christianity is an effete and worn-out thing, we may safely challenge them to show us anything better


    25. And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools,


    26. degraded and their soles have worn-out, leaving them unsafe for running


    27. You will be all 3, but only as the last, though a tired, worn-out crone, are you the whole


    28. The man is always taking, the woman always giving; and giving so wonderfully, in the face sometimes of dreadful disaster, of shipwreck, of death—which explains perhaps her longer persistence in clinging to the skirts of a worn-out passion; for is not the tenderer feeling on the side of the one who gave and blessed? Always, always on that side? Mixing into what was sensual some of the dear divineness of the mother-love? I think I could never grow wholly indifferent to a person to whom I had given much


    29. in a sweaty bar with worn-out furniture where you couldn’t hear what anyone was saying and you would spend upwards of nine


    30. What for? What did a woman in her sort of shoes, worn-out shoes fifty years old, want still to save herself up for? And if religion would protect her from this kind of defeatist thinking, and succeed in hoodwinking her--persuading her, she meant--that her soul, if she tried hard enough, might presently take on all the beauty, if of a different kind, her body used to have, and all its delight, of a different kind too, in living and doing and looking forward, she would be willing at least to try it

    31. This old, worn-out woman two years younger than herself


    32. Like old worn-out home movies, the sprockets of his mind skipped and


    33. He was wearing jeans and a worn-out jumper


    34. {52-1} caballos; only old and worn-out horses are selected for thebull-fights


    35. promotion, he drops on the floor the worn-out toys of the day, and with glistening eyes


    36. He looked old and worn-out in a casual suit, a neck scarf in debonair style


    37. Smiled at the hand waves of the schoolchildren returning home, with their off-white apron-like school uniforms, their dusty, worn-out shoes and droopy socks, their heads shaven for the prevention of lice and expense


    38. The seniors, on the other hand, had never looked better, except for a few individuals such as Lacy Darson, whose worn-out turquoise-yellow gym shoes looked as though they needed to be replaced and Emily Liang, whose constant habit of wearing sweaters and jeans in the summer had to make her sweat uncontrollably at some point in time


    39. Thus we see the world covered with the ruins of religions and philosophies, which have each in their day been an improvement on worn-out superstitions


    40. "No doubt it is a pleasure for a worn-out profligate to describe such adventures with a monstrous project of the same sort in his mind--especially under such circumstances and to such a man as me

    41. "He was a man of great talents, and of brilliant wit; but, a worn-out votary of voluptuousness, his desires became fastidious in proportion as they grew weak,


    42. worn-out jeans into cut-offs, and add rosettes and beading to t-shirts for the latest looks


    43. No sooner had this idea taken possession of him than he became more composed, arranged his couch to the best of his power, ate little and slept less, and found existence almost supportable, because he felt that he could throw it off at pleasure, like a worn-out garment


    44. At the end of two years they found themselves exhausted with the protracted campaign, their movements hampered by a lot of worn-out plant and antiquated machinery, and harassed on every side by the lower charges of the Gas Coy


    45. Now there was nothing left but these few old broken chairs and the deal table which no one would buy; and upstairs, the wretched bedsteads and mattresses whereon they slept at night, covering themselves with worn-out remnants of blankets and the clothes


    46. Lastly the inhabitants of the town (their own interest in this worn-out subject languidly reviving itself, by sympathy with what they saw others feel) lounged idly to the same quarter, and tormented Hester Prynne, perhaps more than all the rest, with their cool, well-acquainted gaze at her familiar shame


    47. Your family members and friends understand and care, but after half a week of seeing you hobbling around the house and crying in the bathroom, even they can get worn-out by it all


    48. His men were sick, starving, with worn-out, leaky boots and uniforms indistinguishable from beggars’ rags, and their fighting spirit was virtually nonexistent


    49. The material apparatus of perfected civilization which obliterates the individuality of old towns under the stereotyped conveniences of modern life had not intruded as yet; but over the worn-out antiquity of Sulaco, so characteristic with its stuccoed houses and barred windows, with the great yellowy-white walls of abandoned convents behind the rows of sombre green cypresses, that fact—very modern in its spirit—the San Tome mine had already thrown its subtle influence


    50. Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn’t working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road




























    Mostra più esempi