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worn

affected by wear; damaged by long use worn threads on the screw a worn suit the worn pockets on the jacket (= careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering looking careworn as she bent over her mending her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness that raddled but still noble face shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face — Charles Dickens

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Simple sentences

Tom was all worn out.
I've worn out my shoes.
Tom worked all day and was completely worn out.
Mary's closets are full of clothes she hasn't worn in years.
My shoes are worn out.
I'm worn out, because I've been standing all day.
Hard use has worn this bag.
It seems to have worn out.
I'm worn out.
The leather jacket has worn out at the elbows.
My patience is worn out.
His overcoat is worn out.
His patience is worn out.
The soles of my shoes are worn.
The shoes are worn out.
The school uniform is convenient because it can be worn for both informal and formal occasions.
Three hours of driving has worn me out. Let's pull over at the next rest stop we see.
I will have to get rid of this worn-out carpet.
You must be worn out after working all day.
I've worn out two pairs of shoes this year.
My coat has finally worn out.
I've worn out the shoes.

Movie subtitles

I should not have worn sneakers tonight.
Have you, or a colleague, or a friend worn it lately?
I'm not buying anything that can't be worn over tights and an elastic roll-on.
Look. those enormous rocks have been worn away by the gigantic force of water, in nature's eternal cycle.
Guns so worn they drop shells on our own men.
For three generations, these orange blossoms have been worn at our weddings.
I haven't worn these for years.
Hats are worn beret-style, coquettishly askant.
They'll be worn on a jeweled.
The law is that the corpus delicti must be established at least by fragments of the human body or of articles known and proved to have been worn by the deceased.
I've never worn one of those in my life.
Very well, clothes will be worn, undoubtedly. skirts could be shorter and legs could be longer.
All I'll miss is growing old and being tired and worn-out.
You should have told me. I'd have worn evening dress.
We're all worn out. Aren't we?
The men in the boats are worn-out.
I've never worn one.
If I had known you were coming, I'd have worn my pearl studs.
He must have worn gloves.
See the blood oozing through the cut in the glove worn by the murderer Left a distinct mark on the woman's throat.
You must be worn out.
If you hadn't worn those pants, I never would have bought that bathtub.
I haven't worn this suit for quite a while.
You buy wives just like shirts, and after you've worn them, you toss them away.
Miss Julie, you're looking mighty worn-out.
You see, Bates insists that a square tie. is the only possible tie that can be worn with evening clothes.
It's gonna be all worn out, washing and ironing it all the time.
I HAVE NOT WORN WELL, CAPTAIN BROWN.
Worn like a hat.
And belts will be worn tighter this winter.
I - I've worn old dresses so I could have lovely clothes for it.
My feet'll be worn down to the knees.
I've worn rope shoes for 10 years.
You're worn out and nervous.
You look worn out.
A pair of worn shoes.

News and current affairs

Malaise has grown ever more acute after many Bolivian political leaders and their supporters, worn down by the regional crisis of the 1990's, expressed doubts over the modernization process.
They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
But comparisons to the post-WWII Nuremberg tribunal have worn thin: as the proceedings drag on, observers wonder why it has taken so long to establish criminal liability.
From nuclear-tipped missiles down to trucks full of fertilizer or explosives worn as belts, we have used our technology to amplify greatly the dark parts of our nature as a violent-and not even a properly predatory-species.
It is when this becomes crystal clear, and also when some worn-out foreign-policy paradigms, such as the fetish of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fail once again, that real choices will have to be made.
But that excuse has worn thin.
Second, the Security Council now looks like a paper tiger because its authority was successfully challenged by a worn-out regime.
Non-aggressive demonstrations of difference - including Islamic headscarves worn by students or teachers in largely Christian countries - should be bearable.
An instructive example of the cosmopolitanism bargain came in 2006, when Great Britain's former foreign minister, Jack Straw, raised concerns about the nijab, the full-head covering worn by some Muslim women.
But the dams were worn out, threatening a flood.
The manic character of his presidency - initiative spilling into initiative, each being the transformative solution to the problem at hand, all opposition denounced as lies, bad faith, and cowardice - has worn thin.
Wearing a watch that costs 200 times more than one that does a better job of keeping time says something else, even when it is worn by people who are not governing a relatively poor country.
These individuals read newspapers fabricated in the offices of the Communist Party; view only two television channels, both cut from the same cloth; and listen to radios that play the same worn-out speeches.
BUDAPEST - It's a well-worn contrast: the United States is religious, Europe is secular.
Arafat's ability to symbolize the Palestinian cause throughout the world has worn thin in recent years, but any successor would be more obscure.
Because the major industrial economies seem to be on the path to recovery - albeit a feeble one - no one seems to care very much that the mechanisms of cooperation are worn out. They should.
Owing to the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, any future British government will inherit a military that is overstretched, undermanned, and working with worn-out equipment.
There are plenty of well-worn diplomatic paths, so it's not structures that are lacking.
Now, however, with China rising, global power rebalancing, and the US worn down by two decade-long wars that have eroded its credibility, the postwar international order is under intense strain.
But preventing war will not be easy, because Barack Obama's mystique has worn off in the Arab world.
The burqa, however, is worn far more rarely in France - by about 1,900 of nearly six million Muslims, almost none of them from a traditional burqa-wearing country.
Now the French parliament wants to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa - the full, face-covering garment worn in orthodox Arab countries, and now adopted by some orthodox non-Arabs - in public places.

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