Example sentences for: worn

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

  • When one side of a flint used in a flintlock weapon had worn away, it lost proper contact with the frizzen and caused inadequate sparking to set off the powder charge.

  • For hundreds of years, women had worn only petticoats.

  • The point is this: There are plenty of places to dump $100 on a pair of awfully cute baby overalls that will be worn exactly three times, but $100 baby overalls, like subzero freezers and Land Rovers, are a sign that you have too much money.

  • Beyond the arch, a cobbled street, worn slick by centuries of tramping feet, leads up to the splendid expanse of the Largo da Sé (Cathedral Square), best seen in the evening when floodlit and free of cars.

  • We sat grown quiet at the name of love;We saw the last embers of daylight die,And in the trembling blue-green of the skyA moon, worn as if it had been a shellWashed by time's waters as they rose and fellAbout the stars and broke in days and years.


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