threadbare

How To Use threadbare In A Sentence

• His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
• Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
• The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
• Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
• Most of these diarists ceased to write in 1945, but a few kept going through the threadbare peace.
• Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
• The democratic pretences of the opposition have always been threadbare.
• Her comments are so threadbare and banal, that her role smacks of the worst kind of tokenism.
• Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence.
• One old man with an almost threadbare pate and the thinnest of comb-overs even stopped to pump up his volume and then smile at the result.