How To Use Tatty In A Sentence

We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.
In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
This isn't like a Sunday redtop slapping "Exclusive" on every tatty tale in town. Huffington Post not so picture perfect
I think there a couple of pretty sad, tatty tapes from rehearsals at our parents' place.
Wanjiku started sweeping the bare concrete floor round the tatty sofa and dusted Austen's desk which rocked against the shiplap walls. WHITE LIES

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To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.
A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.
Cage seems unusually glum about his task, though Ron Perlman does get to headbutt Satan, and there's a tatty rope bridge across a chasm to give this dun-coloured trudge at least one hokily diverting set piece. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
MARTIN of London - the stamps in the tatty old album are valuable. The Sun
For some years afterwards, our tatty red velvet curtains were still hanging in the upstairs window. Times, Sunday Times
Forget-me-nots will probably be looking mildewed and tatty soon, so pull them up and dispose of them.
There isn't that slightly tatty countryside at the edge of a town which you can go off and explore. Times, Sunday Times
Take a good look at the first tatty and filthy old Egyptian banknote you handle and you'll see why. Times, Sunday Times
Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.
In the old people's home I was consigned for what seemed like an eternity to the day room - to a view of tatty armchairs, leering smiles, clawing fingers, and spittly remarks I could not understand.
Holing him up in Steeple Fritton was supposed to have been a cure-all --- but the affair with Tatty was, apparently, still raging. TICKLED PINK
an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains
I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.
She was more than twice his age, he flirted with happy indiscrimination, and he was already involved with Tatty Spry, to boot. TICKLED PINK
The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
Take a good look at the first tatty and filthy old Egyptian banknote you handle and you'll see why. Times, Sunday Times
Holing him up in Steeple Fritton was supposed to have been a cure-all --- but the affair with Tatty was, apparently, still raging. TICKLED PINK
A third guy wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.
Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.
Tatty covers can bind the most inspiring literature.
In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.
Small and slim, it is portable, pocketable, and, once finished, should be left in a coffee shop to grow tatty with attention or abandoned in a pub where its clear-eyed wisdom might seep into the smoky air.
You are going to change out of those tatty old jeans, aren't you?
One showed an elderly couple in a tatty cafe with the caption: Springtime in Stoke-on-Trent.
His clothes were so tatty and his confidence so eroded that she could not imagine where he fitted into society. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
His friends used to tease him about his tatty clothes.
I think what can put them off are tatty old books that haven't been replaced in 20 years. The Sun
We are very attached to our tatty old dory, however; parting will be quite hard when the time comes.
Take a good look at the first tatty and filthy old Egyptian banknote you handle and you'll see why. Times, Sunday Times
It's already looking old and tatty. The Sun
The action takes place in a tatty hotel managed by Helena who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.
So when lawn edges become overgrown and tatty, it can have an adverse effect on the look of the whole garden.
Squeezing past a tatty door and stepping on electric cables that fed the heaters, I entered a poorly lit interior.
Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition.
Somehow he had survived all the upheavals of my adolescence and youth in his tatty knitted boiler suit, the only relic of my childhood. Times, Sunday Times
So here's a tatty old comedy programme with some women in it. Times, Sunday Times
Josh Davis has just shambled on to the stage, pottering about and digging through a tatty backpack for cartridges and CDs.
She found herself in a rather tatty entrance hallway, with new maroon flock wallpaper and, less impressively, peeling paint and worn carpeting.
He'd probably wear a tatty old T-shirt with more holes than cloth. Times, Sunday Times
Within the few pubs that do provide smoke-free areas, the no smoking rooms invariably tend to be the most unattractive/poky/tatty.
The objective of this study is to produce human milk fat substitutes, which mimic tatty acid and triacylglycerol compositions found in human breast milk, as fat ingredients of infant formula.
For barefoot boys as young as four in tatty shirts, to turbaned men in their sixties, football is a passion.
There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn.
After you read a few of these books, you quickly get the impression that these guys live in mouldy basements with the same curling Star Wars posters on the wall, and tatty underwear in their drawers, and underused toothbrushes drying out by their sinks. Does Science Fiction, in Fact, Suck?
When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble.
Incidentally, the chard lasted all winter and, although the leaves looked unappetisingly tatty, it was good to have something interesting in the garden.
But a set of six steel strings is a notorious nail varnish remover - just slices the varnish off and leaves your partially-painted nails looking tatty.
Take a good look at the first tatty and filthy old Egyptian banknote you handle and you'll see why. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room.
She's certainly dressed for the part, in a jumper and a tatty leather coat, sipping her studenty tea and smoking her studenty Marlboro Lights like any other slightly frazzled third year.
The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.
It is her courtiers who seem not to grasp that the privy purse is filled by the public's increasingly tatty wallet. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhere on my bookshelves, I've got many a dog-eared and tatty book from the 1980s and early 90s about the home video revolution.
His coat is a tatty old thing, which he decides to swap for something more upscale. Times, Sunday Times
Come daylight, I decided to try the first class bar with its rows of squishy green velveteen sofas and tatty carpet.
I look at the tatty machines and their glaring advert-riddled interfaces with furrowed brow for a second, then head to the bar, hoping it'll be wifi enabled for customers. Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 1: Chicago or Bust
All the comedy, tatty eccentricity and devil-may-care cynicism are utterly gone - and of course the ambiguous cliffhanger ending is unthinkable.
The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.
It's all very well for old fogies, with their pensions and their paid-up mortgages, to wander ghost-like about their business in a tatty, run-down town, resisting change.
Come daylight, I decided to try the first class bar with its rows of squishy green velveteen sofas and tatty carpet.
The object of my desire was a tatty Dormobile in burgundy and cream paintwork, driven by an old couple who had probably owned it from new. Sliding Doors
I have a copy of the second edition, its original dust jacket tatty and grimy but intact.
The prices are extremely economical and I am appreciative for the dovish of mind. lay 80% on tatty Generic Viagra $0.99 per medication, Generic Cialis $1.15 per troche and Generic Levitra $2.95 at ourcut-priceestGeneric ED pharmacy. Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been
If it is tatty and old it could be dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
The tatty disgrace of an arrivals hall is also being upgraded. Times, Sunday Times
It was slightly tatty around the edges, with grubby window frames and slapdash paintwork.
These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.
It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves.
It stood out in the midst of the cheap furniture, the tatty carpets, the mildewed wallpaper. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
So when lawn edges become overgrown and tatty, it can have an adverse effect on the look of the whole garden.
My dahlias are flowering but the petals are ragged and tatty. Times, Sunday Times
These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.
In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
There are, I concede, more deserving causes than ‘hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expense’.
A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.
She was more than twice his age, he flirted with happy indiscrimination, and he was already involved with Tatty Spry, to boot. TICKLED PINK
It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.
I had a bit of a duty call to go and watch a friend in a play, and not just any old tatty fringe show with no set and stinky unwashed costumes, but a proper posh play at the proper posh Edinburgh International Festival.
Maybe it was lethal aromatherapy fumes emanating from Tatty's shop next door? TICKLED PINK
She had long, brown tatty hair and wore clothes that were nothing more than rags that hung loosely off her fragile, underfed body.
I scored 11 out of 15 which came with a cheerful holiday message: Good try but the tinsel is looking a little tatty and your needles are starting to drop. Yeah It’s Friday! « So Many Books
Yet the business model used by pharmaceutical groups is looking increasingly tatty. Times, Sunday Times
After I had dismissed the skin inflaming make-up and the tatty plastic jewellery, all I was left with were surly-looking dolls wearing clompy shoes and tarty skirts that cost the earth.
It might be tatty and simply too disorderly for sophisticated European palates.
For Asia's hip and swanky people, carrying a mobile phone with a cracked screen and a tatty plastic cover is tantamount to a crime against fashion.
Like Querelle, men in tatty soiled uniforms are flexing their muscles, while others stare vacantly into the middle distance.
His friends used to tease him about his tatty clothes.
As he speaks, a rather tatty, greying man with spectacles and a discernible paunch appears on the stage and walks towards us. Times, Sunday Times
For some years afterwards, our tatty red velvet curtains were still hanging in the upstairs window. Times, Sunday Times
The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty.
The flowers are getting tatty and I've driven by there often enough to see that.
This evaporation principle was also adopted to lower the temperature inside ambulances by means of a cuscus tatty; this consisted of a four-sided wooden frame with chicken wire front and rear, the cavity was filled with what we called camel thorn. Coming of Age: 1939-1946
A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
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The tatty disgrace of an arrivals hall is also being upgraded. Times, Sunday Times
The false rumour was tatty, but the Prime Minister's guiltless acknowledgement of it was refreshing.
Everything was on a lavish scale, slightly tatty only round the edges. Somewhere East of Life
I got used to sordid digs, ghastly dressing rooms and tatty restaurants in Pitsville.
The man slowly swivelled round now, his eyes shielded by the tatty peak of an army-style baseball cap. The Priest
She was wearing tatty clothes and her grubby hands clutched dozens of plastic bags.
Yet the business model used by pharmaceutical groups is looking increasingly tatty. Times, Sunday Times
`They grizzled a bit about getting down there and they all say they won't get up again because of their rheumatics ,' Tatty said cheerfully. TICKLED PINK
The object of my desire was a tatty Dormobile in burgundy and cream paintwork, driven by an old couple who had probably owned it from new. Sliding Doors
Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound.
June says: 'I had a tatty old wig at first. The Sun

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