weathered
IPA: wˈɛðɝd
adjective
- Worn by weather, as of rocks, stone, etc.
- (architecture) Made slightly sloping, so as to throw off water.
- (figurative) experienced
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Examples of "weathered" in Sentences
- Weathered steel in weathered hands … and a fine walnut stock with a weathered brand.
- Killanin weathered the uncertainties that surrounded the organization of the Montreal Games in 1976.
- It could die by poisoning: If oil hasn't been "weathered" by the sun and bacteria, the grass could take toxins in through its roots.
- BP officials stress that, by the time oil gets to shore, it is "weathered" and missing the highly volatile compounds like the carcinogenic benzene, among others.
- Ed Overton of Louisiana State University said that tar balls form when oil is heavily "weathered," or decomposed, and that these might have formed in the Deepwater Horizon fire.
- Why do you think states that seriously diversified their economy and invested in higher education in the long term weathered and recovered from this recession faster than Nevada?
- But a stiff east or southeast wind across the northeast Gulf might push "weathered" (non-flammable) oil onshore toward the northwest -- towards the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coast.
- "Previous spills have all happened over a relatively short period of time and then the clean-up effort has mostly been on what's called weathered oil" -- oil that's been floating on the surface of water for some period of time.
- The story contrasted Reagan's youthful-looking, thick black hair and his "weathered," 64-year-old face to describe the "extraordinary contradiction" of the man who "flies around the country looking eager for the presidency [but] describes himself as reluctant."
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