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Example sentences for: tattered

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All this time, the land for the library has sat undisturbed, covered with tall weeds and empty buildings, its intended purpose marked only by a banner that has grown progressively more tattered.
And in 1963, 36 years ago, Martin Lipset wrote a book about our founding called The First New Nation . So new is obviously a tattered, tired old term.
He brought out a tattered paperback and thrust it at me, insisting that the volume was too important not to be passed on.
… A piece ridicules "fauxhemians"--rich folks who dress up conspicuous consumption "in the artfully tattered guise of the downscale and democratic."
Portugal soon lapsed into decline, though, tattered by wars and constitutional crises, and for two centuries or more the Algarve remained isolated from the rest of Europe.