worn
IPA: wˈɔrn
adjective
- Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
- Worn out; exhausted.
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Examples of "worn" in Sentences
- For whatever the reason, diabetes, heart, stroke, or plain worn out bones.
- SNOW (voice-over): Independence in a state that lives by the motto "Live free or die" is not a label worn lightly.
- Blue canvas shoes stirred up small puffs of soil, their toes threadbare and worn from the years of kicking the earth.
- In a hoarse voice worn from the busiest campaign since his election, President Barack Obama warned an estimated crowd of 35,000 on Ohio State's campus ...
- We need to do for the 21st century what FDR did for the twentieth -- invest in worn-out highways, our frail electrical grid, our public transit, brittle bridges, and water supplies.
- I mind one super-tunic she gave me, but half worn, "-- this was said impressively, for a garment only _half worn_ was considered a fit gift from one peeress to another --" of blue damask, all set with silver buttons, and broidered with ladies 'heads along the border.
- II. iv.35 (184,7) [lost and worn] Though _lost and worn_ may means _lost and worn out_, yet _lost and won_ being, I think, better, these two words coming usually and naturally together, and the alteration being very slight, I would so read in this place with Sir Tho.
- In a hoarse voice worn from the busiest campaign since his election, President Barack Obama warned an estimated crowd of 35,000 on Ohio State's campus tonight that Wall Street values will govern the country if Republicans regain power in the upcoming mid-term election.
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