Utiliser "shabby" dans une phrase

1. revealing a shabby hovel of a place that reeked of decay and mould

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2. endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean

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3. flood in his shabby little nest, and yet he felt a certain thrill at the sight of this weedy

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4. He rented a shabby flat in the

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5. The pickings became sour and few, you hungered endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean

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6. A drowned rat, he thought, a drowned rodent waiting out the flood in his shabby little nest, and yet he felt a certain thrill at the sight of this weedy little specimen, as though they were joined by an invisible umbilical cord

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7. He rented a shabby flat in the port slum and, when the coin for wine evaporated, he might work for a few nights as a pot-washer or something equally lonely

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8. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat

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9. As they both turned to look at the man he doffed his shabby top hat and grinned a toothless grin

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10. The newly homeless couple were manhandled out of the car without a further word being said by anyone and left standing on the loose stones and thinly grassed topsoil at the top of the cliff where they had once lived a spare and shabby life in a caravan

11. doffed his shabby top hat and grinned a toothless grin

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12. the cliff where they had once lived a spare and shabby life in a

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13. The room is in half light, protected from the outside world by shabby brown curtains that are almost drawn together

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14. " Jake answered, to what he thought, was her calling him, popping his head into the shabby dimly lit room in the basement

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15. His dress was shabby and she remembered him running off with

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16. His presence in this shabby quarter seemed out of place

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17. So that’s what Homer was doing on the shabby street where

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18. Usually we’d discover a gas station, small and a little shabby, property not realizing its potential, given the traffic

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19. sound but shabby and it wasn’t drawing much of a tourist crowd

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20. And the rear view wasn’t too shabby, either

21. The location for the hotel couldn’t be better on the skirt of deep gorge with towering, jungle-covered mountains opposite, superb stables and the inn was anything but shabby

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22. The suit was shabby silver gray over the same button down white shirt or its brother

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23. It was also arranged and furnished in the same sparse and shabby manner, with the exception that the room seemed to be filled with luggage

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24. The First Officer looked at the shabby work clothes they were wearing and the caps with red stars on them and remarked, “You certainly don’t look like what you say you are, ma’am

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25. She barely seemed to take notice of him; she was staring at the shabby road and the approaching rovers with a cold, crisp fixation

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26. In the dark, the shabby appearance of its exterior was not noticeable, but as they filed into the entrance hall that served as a lobby, they could see that the establishment had seen better days

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27. We were side by side in a bookkeeping class on the second floor of a shabby inner-city building of Johannesburg

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28. Here was Mary with a new velvet cap, but she and Faith had to wear their shabby old gray tams again this winter

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29. Somehow, they did not make other people feel shabby

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30. They were shabby enough

31. One wrist was still bandaged, though the bandages were torn and shabby; her face was scratched and her clothes were blackened from heat and smoke

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32. She had found everything she needed for the baby at swap meets and garage sales in neighbouring towns and had then taken them home and very lovingly sterilised and washed everything, nothing was going to look shabby for her baby even if they were second hand

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33. Libby stood outside the shabby house and though this is not what I really want

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34. several bales of hay, emerging with a shabby, much re-charged

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35. Which is distinct from a ‘Sending’, which is… Oh drat this shabby translation spell! At any rate, the gifts will magically appear

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36. He wore gray, ragged clothes that looked so shabby and dingy

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37. She wore shabby and dirty clothes

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38. If the notes on the property were difficult to begin with it makes perfect sense that other issues such as leaking roofs, shabby

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39. But as he slipped his tunic on, he realised that it was not as torn or shabby as it had been

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40. SHE COULD HAVE pretended she was vacationing, if she wasn’t staying in a shabby two star hotel where the only good feature was that it was close to the Bograshov Beach and restaurants

41. The shabby clothes he slept in the night before

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42. She apologized for the shabby condition of the living room

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43. could see by the wealthy Miles' smug expressions it must appear pretty shabby

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44. There were still a few shabby corners to the

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45. I approached the parked cars in the heart of the Forest Preserve—I observed the insignia on Millsap’s squad car and the dark tint on Grim’s shabby Caprice

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46. And now? Now he lived a pointless existence in a backward hamlet populated by trailer trash and clod-hopping farmers, bunking in a shabby room of a run-down farmhouse on a dirt road in the boondocks, drinking water from a well out of mismatched glasses, counting himself lucky when this girl cooked him a hot meal served up on chipped crockery

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47. brew as I watched him shuffle down the road with his shabby sandals

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48. A day sawing and removing fallen logs and branches from tracks was the medicine needed, and after a long hot bath, a close shave and running the clippers over his body, the shabby, sweaty, feral creature was transformed into a clean, neat, fit and sleekly attractive young man who would excite but not frighten his next class of fourteen year-olds

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49. These shabby buildings were very different from the fashionable shops and salons found in the wealthy Merchants’ Quarter, where the hats manufactured here would ultimately be sold

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50. built man in a shabby suit with a three day growth of whiskers covering a

51. It was a drab room, stuffed with Formica topped tables and shabby metal chairs

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52. Once he was sitting directly across from a woman of the road, a vagrant lady dressed in shabby clothes with broken shoes and unwashed hair, sleeping in the warmth of the carriage

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53. He lived in a rather shabby apartment complex, alone of course (he was--after all--unbeknownst to the human eye)

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54. The girl child learns a mixture of shame, pleasure, exposure, visibil-Though I had difficulty imagining this shabby old woman having an affair with her

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55. And then Tom’s mother had been interviewed at their shabby home, obviously nervous but trying to garner sympathy

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56. shabby little neighborhood that I wanted to laugh out loud but

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57. I was still counting and there were thirty six steps and thirty six tiles before we reached a shabby, gun-metal door

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58. the little dog had caught his rope collar on a jagged splinter of the shabby dog-

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59. the two were disturbed in their drinking by a shabby

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60. The facade of the Morales Hotel was shabby and dusty

61. After driving for most of the day, they found a small shabby town on the outskirts of Delhi as their resting point

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62. A group of young men in a shabby car drove up close till they were side by side

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63. feel he's dealing with a shabby organisation

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64. Clarene ran to the shabby davenport, pulled the white afghan off the backrest, and then curled herself into a ball

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65. As she strolled back and forth, her shabby patent shoes squeaked on the tile floor

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66. “Pretty shabby work for two of the best commanders I ever trained

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67. He was wearing a shabby linen suit with shoes that showed the desperate defense of superimposed patches of white zinc, and in his hand he was carrying a straw hat he had bought the Saturday before

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68. He would go to the bathroom in a shabby robe with golden dragons on it and a pair of slippers with yellow tassels, and there he would officiate at a rite which for its care and length recalled Remedios the Beauty

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69. Living in a dirty and shabby home is stressful indeed

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70. Please excuse my shabby appearance and late arrival, but the Japanese Army is still far from finished in China

71. However, the notes he received from a classmate were shabby, at best

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72. Gregor and his men entered a large, shabby looking warehouse and locked the door behind them

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73. Tears of joy welled up in her blue eyes when she saw the shabby, blood stained figure hobbling towards her

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74. Not too shabby for a mass of approximately half a billion tons

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75. The shabby treatment, the avoidance

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76. left of the poor dead Allied prisoners efforts, was a shabby old bridge in a

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77. He was dressed in the most worn shabby

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78. Ronald through the shabby apartment

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79. The shabby homeless man and the middle-aged accused sat close

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80. El Mundo is a busy, cheap hostel that combines cosy and shabby in a wondrous way

81. Two shabby, middle-aged men got out and hovered beside the tire

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82. Reduced to the status of petty criminal, with shabby clothes clinging to his back, the stink of body oils perfuming his hair and dirt caking his blistered skin

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83. A crew of older boys, workmen’s sons by the clean look of their shabby clothes, most of them Gralde, crowded round the strip of muck

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84. The deals were not too shabby either

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85. theatre we entered through the weather-beaten door, went up the concrete staircase, and into a shabby

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86. We returned to the shabby room where Dale had to wait

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87. Humility only looks shabby to those who do not have it

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88. He was no longer at the Sanctuary, but was now inside his shabby old bedroom

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89. It looked shabby and unkempt

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90. While the clothes were better than anything he had, there were still shabby and dirty from the trip

91. The heralds had become monks and the rich bed a shabby pallet covered with blankets

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92. His face was gaunt, his body a wasted frame that held up a shabby robe

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93. and judging by the shabby state of it, he wished he‘d

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94. A tall dark silhouette of a shabby bearded man passes the shops along the empty street

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95. in shabby cloths held the place hostage

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96. No excitements, no clothes, acquaintances so shabby that they seem almost moth-eaten, the days filled with the same dull round, a home in a little town where we all get into one groove and having got into it stay in it, to which only faint echoes come of what is going on in the world outside, a place where one is amused and entertained by second-rate things, second-rate concerts, second-rate plays, and feels oneself grow cultured by attendance at second-rate debating-society meetings

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97. You would be like some strange and splendid bird in the midst of three extremely shabby sparrows

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98. “You’re not that shabby either

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99. The tea-things hadn't yet been cleared away, and gave a spurious air of comfort to the shabby room

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