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Example sentences for: shabby

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

I remember it as a decent, shabby old thing--not a fleapit, but nothing that attempted to be in any way sybaritic.
As the reader can tell, both from these comments and from my shabby efforts in this periodical, I can rarely support the rewriting of my own material and, in fact, almost never rewrite anything of my own.
The group is housed in a shabby building on Capitol Hill a few doors down from the palatial headquarters of the Heritage Foundation.
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.
The rather shabby modern buildings belie Omonia’s importance.