Example sentences for: worn-out

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

  • There seems a touch of worn-out humor in that--or perhaps merely of verbal cuteness.

  • Even if gross national saving were only sufficient to replace depreciated capital, the economy could grow to some extent because replacing worn-out and used capital with new equipment tends to bring improved technology into the production process.

  • On the other hand, many lands see the world with a single eye: a new broom does sweep better than one with worn-out bristles.

  • Celebrating the Thurmond "legacy" and then portraying him as worn-out, Legacy is free to suggest that a younger version of the senator should replace him.

  • Here Kubrick took a seemingly worn-out genre, the haunted-house chiller, and found dozens of new corridors.


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