Example sentences for: shabby

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

  • And that seems pretty shabby no matter what, exactly, happened in that hotel room--shabbier than anything Clarence Thomas was ever even accused of doing by Anita Hill.

  • The group is housed in a shabby building on Capitol Hill a few doors down from the palatial headquarters of the Heritage Foundation.

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

  • Even The West Wing , a shabby small-screen version of every big-screen movie about the inner workings of government (which are themselves shabby versions of the real thing, which is itself a shabby version of what the real thing should be), is a hit; it ought to be canceled, if only to send a message to the dentist who capped Martin Sheen's teeth.

  • With eight years and counting of Clintonian expansion making Reagan's "seven fat years" look positively shabby, and with supply-side heroes such as Jude Wanniski looking loonier by the day, the Wall Street Journal will take anything it can get.


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