ADJECTIVE
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worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down
an old book with dog-eared pages
a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down
How To Use dog-eared In A Sentence
- Of course he would never have been able to discard a used sheet and his would have looked like an enormous, dog-eared paperback after about a week.
- I looked through all of them but could find no reference to annona zingiber, Puzzled, I searched the shelves for suitable reference material and pulled out a thick dog-eared volume titled Botanical Blood Test
- He rummaged in a drawer and pulled out a couple of dog-eared tickets. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
- They'd go well with a splash of chili oil and a dog-eared copy of Good Omens. FRIDAY; Or, This Week in Queries, With Albatrosses, Demonic, For the Use of
- Sarah Palin is rarely seen in the Alaskan woods without her dog-eared copy of Immanuel Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents
- Archie performs his moth-eaten variety act before dwindling audiences in dog-eared music hall theatres.
- It was a worn book, pages dog-eared, and edges faded.
- Among the pots and pans was a dog-eared ledger book with faded batters.
- Celia made an unnecessarily scrupulous study of the centre of the table where a dog-eared stack of newsletters bore the title Barclay's Beat in fuchsia lettering. In the Presence of the Enemy
- Ruth clutched a dog-eared Bible in one hand.
