How To Use Weather-beaten In A Sentence
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I'd have said ‘Don't be crazy,’ he says, his weather-beaten face creasing into a smile.
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He wore a short hauberk over a leather shirt and weather-beaten old leather leggings.
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And then I followed him out and sat beside him on an old couch covered with a wool blanket in front of a low weather-beaten coffee table.
So Much Pretty
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His jokes may be hoary, but the glint in his eye is youthful; the footwork may be on the weather-beaten side, but his welcoming smirk is ageless.
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They drove to the site, a weather-beaten bungalow near the boardwalk.
Shore Thing
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St Nicholas' Church has been granted more than £130,000 by English Heritage to repair the weather-beaten building.
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There are also contemplative zones, like a fragrant garden for smell, the colour garden and a pool of lilies for sight, and a tactile area strewn with weather-beaten rocks to stimulate the sense of touch.
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From the roof, they could see the entire yard and down the street, past the weather-beaten houses to the VFW at the end of the block, where oldsters gathered to play bingo and swap stories.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Their features were at once craggy and dour, their skin tough-looking and weather-beaten.
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The culture in the yoghurt brings up a weather-beaten effect within weeks and encourages the growth of lichens.
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Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs.
CHAPTER I
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A summer hotel stretched its verandas along a lovely level; everywhere in clovery hollows and on breezy knolls were gray old farmhouses and summer cottages-like weather-beaten birds 'nests, and like freshly painted marten-boxes; but all of a cold New England neatness which made me homesick for my malodorous Spanish fishing-village, shambling down in stony lanes to the warm tides of my native seas.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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He wore battle-dress green, slacks and sweater and his weather-beaten face glowed with satisfaction and well-being.
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There were fast new attack transports, slow rust-scarred freighters, small ocean liners, Channel steamers, hospital ships, weather-beaten tankers, coaster and swarms of fussing tugs.
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She is now in her early 40s, weather-beaten and prematurely aged, wearing only a tattered, faded sari that ends high above the ankles.
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Another time, he is a wanderer with a weather-beaten face exploring the Indian outbacks and striking chords with common people.
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He wore battle-dress green, slacks and sweater and his weather-beaten face glowed with satisfaction and well-being.
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Enliven the dull gray planes of a weather-beaten deck by adding subtle, colorful stripes.
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The highest point along a wide volcano crater is marked by a weather-beaten cross.
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Most of the storefronts along First Street have a kind of weather-beaten Alaskan charm that is both friendly and hopeful, much like the people who live here.
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At the back of the house rose a mountain spine, blocking out the westering sun, but cut with one deep portal where a pass ran into Westmoreland — the scaur-gate whence the house was named; and through this gate of mountain often, when the day was waning, a bar of slanting sunset entered, like a plume of golden dust, and hovered on a broad black patch of weather-beaten fir-trees.
Mary Anerley
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Soil is a composition of weather-beaten rock, minerals, decayed plant materials, and other organic ingredients.
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Families lived in small houses, what real estate agents might call cottages or bungalows somewhere else, with weather-beaten exteriors ringed by short cyclone fences, or in apartments with rusting barbeques on the porches.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
Criticisms and Interpretations. V. Walter Bagehot on the Waverley Novels
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He sat at the centre of the table, looking down, as weather-beaten and differently dressed and slightly alien as a deep-sea fisherman.
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The slightly weather-beaten interior seemed to suit the cheerful group that piled in, heading, predictably, for a cabinet that housed a particularly rare vintage of something golden and strong-smelling.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
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Battered, weather-beaten taxis, driven by sloven drivers, their shirts unbuttoned, looking as weather-beaten as their vehicles.
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From here I could locate the weather-beaten mounds of desiccated earth known as the Badlands.
Mercy Kill
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Smiles can be seen on the weather-beaten faces of those who have been able to pocket this year's pay.
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Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
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The weather-beaten faces staring out from old photographs are no longer around to tell of the hardships of life in a remote mining community 100 years ago.
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He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
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His face is freckled, weather-beaten and chunky, and his hair is tied back in a long ponytail.
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At the Lima meeting, the intense, weather-beaten faces of stocky Andean men light up as they passionately take the floor, one after another, on behalf of their communities' concerns.
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My aesthetician alternately pampered and tortured my weather-beaten skin.
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Down in the bric-a-brac bargain basement one item did catch my imagination, and even at its suggested £450 price tag I'd be sorely tempted to bid for a weather-beaten brown leather panel-stitched rugby ball signed by each of the 1971 British Lions touring party to New Zealand.
Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating
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We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete.
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His hair uncombed, his face weather-beaten and drawn, he looks perhaps a decade older than his 42 years.
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The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water.
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It had a small shady verandah with weather-beaten wooden benches round the edge, and I sank on to one with an ice-cold beer in my hand and my toes digging into the cool sand.
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There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon, between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
Chapter III
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The shoreline was ten feet away, lined with weather-beaten fossils of forgotten fishing boats.
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He asks me to take a look at the other hunt supporters gathered around: country folk all, many with weather-beaten faces and flat Yorkshire accents to go with their caps.
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This would place the bones' arrival in the early part of the 19th century, which is consistent with a 1905 photograph showing the bones already tattered and weather-beaten.
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The standing stones are weather-beaten and cracked, but they remain nevertheless.
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The reefer was a well-dressed boy, evidently a gentleman's son; but the lieutenant was one of those old weather-beaten sea-dogs, who are seldom employed in boats, unless something more than common is to be done.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
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A wide-brimmed hat was pulled down low over his eyes, but Alanis could still see them, surprisingly watchful and aware, glittering at her, like two black beetles in a weather-beaten face.
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As we turned off the road and headed towards the main gate, we were confronted by a massive pair of wooden gates, set in a very old weather-beaten gate lodge.
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The cheek, weather-beaten and embrowned, had lost the glow of youth, but showed the vigorous complexion of active and confirmed manhood.
The Abbot
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In the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington a middle-aged woman with a weather-beaten face and a brown wig sits on a milk crate demonstrating against US foreign policy - as she has done for the last 21 years.
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He's got so many lines on his weather-beaten old face his Botox bill would be enormous.
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This involved first setting their car in the river for three days to swell its weather-beaten wooden spokes, lest the wheels shake themselves into matchsticks on the gullied road.
Colossus
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Wainwright isn't just a sweet songbird; she's the black dove with the weather-beaten coo and has the ability to howl like a seasoned blues singer.
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Well, it all starts with an old weather-beaten fisherman who complains to the wise and worldly Dr. Yano that the heavily-polluted water of Suruga Bay can no longer sustain fish.
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At one point, the guide gestured to a weather-beaten stone cross, saying that it had stood for at least 1,000 years.
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Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability.
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The weather-beaten windows, with their peeling paint, will go, as will the threadbare carpet in the games room.
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Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs.
CHAPTER I
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Juxtaposed against his traditional weather-beaten cowboy gear is a shining chrome lightsaber — a symbol of his destruction of a Jedi warrior.
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McCarthy's angular face, a weather-beaten mask of crags and furrows, hides an inner core filled with Yorkshire steel and Irish charm.
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A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
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Today he's a small wiry man with weather-beaten tanned skin, an equally small moustache, sparkly eyes and a ready grin.
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We follow the sandy road that was once the sea and pause by a huddle of weather-beaten shacks.
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Next beyond the barbershop, which is two doors beyond the general store and postoffice, was a little one-story building, weather-beaten and badly in need of paint.
Thankful's Inheritance
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‘You must be joking,’ I wanted to say, but choked on my words as I looked at the moving conveyer and spotted my long-awaited weather-beaten backpack.
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The appeal of ultra-violet tanning seems to echo an inter-war builder's attachment to pebbledash: a cost-effective way to conceal shoddy exterior work, especially in weather-beaten places.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Pulling into Pol-i-Alam, the small, dusty provincial capital, we made our way to the plain, weather-beaten building that serves as the office of the governor.
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Thousands listened to this man with a weather-beaten face, long hair parted like a woman's, eyes flashing, clothes a mass of rags, a big toe protruding from a moccasin.
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The soloists are excellent too; only the bass sounds a little weather-beaten.
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‘Oh, I see,’ said Marcus, and smiled at her, the grizzled smile of a weather-beaten old man.
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Nose bent impossibly over a weather-beaten face, he looks much older than his 46 years.
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The traveler may call it stupid and ugly, if he calls it at all; our Hermitage still patiently wears its havelock of weather-beaten shingles, for _it_ knows that beneath its lowly roof -- radiant with whitewash and fresh paper -- are cozy, coolly curtained rooms, where friendly books look down from the wall, and drowsy arm-chairs woo from the corners.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The work to restore the clock and tower above the market hall began in October as it had become weather-beaten and the materials had deteriorated.
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The buildings are tall, weather-beaten grey sandstone, a pleasing jumble of medieval and modern.
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Its entrance is a weather-beaten door sandwiched between an occult bookshop and a ritual shop on Vaughan Road.
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A typical Chinese village consists of a cluster of weather-beaten stone houses or mud huts surrounded by open fields where each family tills a small plot.
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Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks.
Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
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a weather-beaten face
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They still live in the duplex, now old and weather-beaten.
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Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
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Her face was worn and weather-beaten, but it creased into the recollection of a smile.
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The weather-beaten signboard contains the same information in Urdu and Gujrathi also.
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He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
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Nonetheless, we need to make use of all available political, diplomatic, economic and legal channels to prevent Venezuela from developing a nuclear weapons capability, going rogue, upsetting the balance of the Latin American NWFZ, and punching yet another hole in an already weather-beaten global nonproliferation framework.
Rizwan Ladha: Venezuela Is Going Nuclear, and We Should Be Worried
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So old and weather-beaten was his buckskin shirt that ragged filaments, here and there, showed where proud fringes once had been.
Chapter 13
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Nobody is likely to pay attention to the brown weather-beaten apartment.