Example sentences for: well-worn

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

  • 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.

  • They are guaranteed to last a lifetime, and judging by the number of well-worn pairs on feet in the hinterland, it certainly seems to be the truth.

  • I suspect that spending many hours getting Reagan to talk about the past (which he is astute enough to realize does not mean much to Reagan except as the source of well-worn anecdotes) must have given him an exaggerated sense of Reagan's detachment from any engagement with the present.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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