Strengthened by being exposed to the elements

Usage examples of weathered.

On either side were fallen columns and architraves whose carvings were too weathered for Garric to be quite sure of their subject.

Daon Ramon wore snow rime like snagged silk around weathered rims of bared rock.

Rome has weathered more and worse, over the centuriesArianism, Manichaeism, Maximianism, Rogatism, Circoncillianism, Donatism, Catharism, Monophysitism, Baldarism, and at least a score morethis Yorkism, too, will burn itself out, die, eventually be stamped out.

The sun and rain had long ago faded his weathered overcloak, once probably blue, to an indeterminate gray.

Thus, the holt had its own underground and overground systems, each tunnel or hollow carved out and weathered to smoothness by time and use.

Nya grinned and led him away from the picnickers, past a clump of mesquite, towards a weathered outhouse half hidden by thick stalks of wild sorghum.

Oscar Roone was a lanky man of sixty with bushy eyebrows and a perpetual scowl on his weathered face.

Thanks, too, to my oldest and closest friend, Peter Marshall, with whom I have weathered many storms, and to Rob Gardner, Joseph and Sherry Jahoda, Roel Oostra, Joseph and Laura Schor, Niven Sinclair, Colin Skinner and Clem Vallance, all of whom gave me good advice.

Many heads did turn to glance without interest at the two soldiers, Shamus in his splendid Kingsmen dress and Colleen in her weathered traveling outfit.

Some of them might have weathered a Ghost Wind, an unseasonable release of kireseth pollen.

He was wearing a hsaie greatcoat over plain shirt and trousers, a sweep of unshaped river-green brocade that set off the weathered ivory of his skin.

Raraku had known many such storms, yet it weathered them as it did all things, with untethered skin of sand and the solid truth of stone.

Her eyes shone with joy as she patted his cheek as though he were a boy and not a weathered soldier.

Elinor stepped quietly among the still-sleeping children and walked out the back door carrying her weathered black bag with her.

Set off by her deeply weathered skin, the brilliance of that color made her gray-and-white streaked hair seem dingier, and her thin frame bonier than ever.