How To Use Washed-up In A Sentence
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Rourke is sensational as the washed-up former celebrity wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, but for me it's Aronofsky's handheld takes that steal the show: following Randy about his routines, achingly, effortlessly evoking the time that hangs on every choice and missed opportunity, all of it rather bittersweetly framed in the film's anti-romantic view of northwestern America.
Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
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Australian film producers are hiring washed-up seppos to star in a local film in a desperate, ultimately futile attempt to whack a few bums on seats.
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One is her lunk of a boyfriend, another is a drunken and washed-up doctor.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921
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Rourke's performance as a washed-up professional athlete trying to make a comeback closely mirrors his own career.
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So… not the washed-up deadbeat of my worst imaginings, then.
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The tragedy of being a dancer is that you're all washed-up by the time you're thirty-five.
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She can do washed-up and tuned-out, sleazy and half-dressed, sleek and oozing with wealth.
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I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools.
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The tragedy of being a dancer is that you're all washed-up by the time you're thirty-five.
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Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men, especially against some one he regarded as an old, rusty, washed-up veteran.
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You will think: "I suck[Sentence dictionary], I'm such a failure. I'm washed-up.
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There's some superb name-calling (in one clip Franken is called "a yappy, washed-up shitzu," with such vitriol that I cracked up at length) and great footage of Ann Coulter and Franken facing off in some sort pundit panel smackdown.
Michelle Orange: God Spoke and He's Feeling Chatty: The Al Franken Documentary
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By buying it, we would somehow be in on the joke - and not only that, but we would be granting a formerly washed-up pop star an escape route from the dumper.
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Experts were still trying last night to work out what the mystery 30ft washed-up remains are.
The Sun
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Some Marvel staffers, in terms they now regret or deny, denounced his work as the ravings of a washed-up, senile old man.
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One of his seminal articles in this period was published in a book in honor of Mises — that supposedly washed-up old man who just so happened to have a penchant for speaking truth to power.
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You walk in to the deafening metronome uncha-uncha-uncha robotic caterwaul, the music almost binary in nature 101101-ing to a crowd of Latino gangbangers, septuagenarians, slumming rich kids and washed-up high school jocks with backwards hats who were just looking for something to date rape.
Someplace Else
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Luke Wilson, as Richie, the washed-up tennis champion in love with his sister, offers some of the most moving scenes in the film, and manages it all while sporting sunglasses and a sweatband.
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It's a very slippery slope between ‘productive veteran’ and ‘washed-up geezer.’