Like the Cratchits' clothes

Usage examples of threadbare.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

Phoebe Simms was not yet accoutred to appear as Madame Alp at intermission, but Florian and Fitzfarris decided that the triplets were worth displaying even in their duckling-looking garb of threadbare old homespun and big new shoes.

She did not stir even when he laid her on the angareb and covered her with the threadbare blanket.

Comandante Dictator-Designate Franco Milhous Caudillo wore a Ruritanian uniform, quite threadbare but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and crossed bandoliers full of spent cartridge cases.

In an alcove cluttered with piles of threadbare tapestry kneelers, tattered hymnals, even a battered piano, stood two tall cupboards.

Two or three went in loricated jerkins, one in a cuirass of boiled leather, another in an old, threadbare brigandine.

Victor Lutz watched the principal pace the threadbare carpet of his office with growing impatience.

The room itself was a press-wood furniture, threadbare sheets and mildewy carpet sort of place.

Everything was old, but not old enough for beauty: shabby furniture of last century, odds and ends of china, threadbare carpets, darned curtains, oleographs on the walls - a home carefully kept, but without comfort or grace.

Inti and his crew, who, following dinner, took a bottle of pisco, threadbare blankets, and the banana-splattered mosquito netting and disappeared into the bush.

The now rustless battle weapons hanging from the walls had been polished to a fine sheen, but the few tapestries and banners which lined the walls drooped threadbare with age and neglect.

The wind scrabbled curiously at his threadbare black clothing, seeking to touch the thin flesh stretched tight over his ribs.

Relying on the anarchy in France and his arrangements with the Duke of Burgundy, and hoping by military successes to unite the English behind the house of Lancaster, Henry V took up the old war and the threadbare claim to the French crown which had not gained in validity by passing to him through a usurper.

Blood spotted the sheet over him and blotched the rags thrown down near a water pitcher not far away, and the threadbare nightshirt he wore was damp with sweat.

The threadbare white towels were designed for midgets, but she still felt marginally more human by the time she stepped back into the room, clean underwear and a silk bathrobe wrapped securely around her still-damp body.