Tattered and frayed

Usage examples of worn.

Her exoskeleton was as clearly artificial as dentures: alloplastic bone worn on the outside.

Although Lydia tried hard to believe that Ambry would find her again, her ability to hope was worn very thin.

He begins to doubt the wisdom of reliance upon that worn apothegm about absence conquering love.

We do not consider that apperception spares us the trouble of examining ever anew and in small detail all the objects and phenomena that present themselves to us, so as to get their meaning, or that it thus prevents our mental power from scattering and from being worn out with wearisome, fruitless detail labors.

In fact, of course, he was simply an appraiser and could have worn an Armani suit for all the heavy lifting he was going to perform.

To his right was a glass-enclosed pen of worn, compacted earth interspersed with tree branches and barkless logs.

He was in a striped blue western-cut shirt, long-sleeved with pearl snaps, and worn blue jeans under equally worn batwing chaps held up by a wide, silver-buckled belt.

His jeans and boots were much more disreputable-looking than hers, his batwing chaps stained and worn.

An edict was published and affixed to the doors of all the churches, in which it was declared that breeches with braguettes were only to be worn by the public hangmen.

This one was sporting a soft, brimless cap of bright red and blue squares, worn at a rakish angle.

These coins were emblazoned with the profile of the second King Mithridates of the Parthians, a short-necked old man with a nose suitable for catching fish, carefully curled hair and pointed beard, and on his head the little round brimless hat his ambassadors had worn, except that his boasted the ribbon of the diadem and had ear-flaps and neck-shield.

Ronny Bronston, but he had a nervous vitality about him that would have worn out the other in a few hours.

Yet his father stood before him like a small, battered bird, the buttonless shirt folded gently over his thin chest and the worn leather slippers searching out the floorboards hesitantly when he walked.

Guillaume, worn down by the inconveniences of excommunication, determined, since he was afraid of no one, to himself accost the man of God boldly with threats of reprisal.

Such are sandy soils that have been much worn by cropping, and also stiff clays in which the humus has become practically exhausted.