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Example sentences for: shabby

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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.
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 sky went from being a perfect clockwork centered on Earth to a fairly shabby neighborhood in which we were a minor resident.
The group is housed in a shabby building on Capitol Hill a few doors down from the palatial headquarters of the Heritage Foundation.
Since there is disputation about what exactly got said, and your bet was with a friend, Prudie suggests the two of you go out to lunch--Dutch--and devote some of the luncheon conversation to the sad and shabby affair.