Example sentences for: shabby

How can you use “shabby” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most of the time, these shabby "soldiers" just sit around and rack their (small) brains for new schemes, worried that if profits fall too low, they're going to find themselves "clipped" or "whacked."

  • The sky went from being a perfect clockwork centered on Earth to a fairly shabby neighborhood in which we were a minor resident.

  • A piece warns that Russia's nuclear power plants are shabby and decaying.

  • The farmhouse, the shingled cottages, the library, and the chapel seem as immutable, in their slightly shabby Wyethian perfection, as the sea that sparkles behind them.

  • Plotz finds this advice cynical and shabby.


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