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Example sentences for: well-worn

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The urban backdrop: Tak Fujimoto's sublimely subtle, atmospheric cinematography made Philadelphia look ancient, decadent, well-worn; rarely does an American film setting feel so saturated with the past and teeming with the footprints left by earlier generations.
Both have trod a well-worn meritocratic path from A's in school to top-flight colleges to well-paying professions--without really knowing what they wanted to be once they got to wherever they were going.
Obviously, the affirmative-action debate is an important if well-worn controversy.
To most people in the English-speaking world, Aye means yes, as in that well-worn phrase, Aye, aye, skipper.
The monosyllables are the meaning of the poem--the acting-out of a literary philosophy, which is to hammer new beauty from well-worn words and modern bric-a-brac.