Example sentences for: tattered

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

  • Some people want to pick up that very tattered battle flag, put on their brightest red coats, form into straight lines and march one more time up Jenkin's Hill.

  • It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.

  • … A piece ridicules "fauxhemians"--rich folks who dress up conspicuous consumption "in the artfully tattered guise of the downscale and democratic."

  • Stories of bar-fights,boasts of glory.That's the old cattelling them, that onewith the tattered ear."

  • General Packenham, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington (famous for his war successes), had been shot, thousands of his troops had been killed, and the tattered survivors withdrew in disarray.


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