Sentence examples for a clapped from inspiring English sources

Bondholders face the prospect of a small stake in a clapped out car company run by a union-friendly government with a zeal for green cars that may not have much of a market.

Top-down and centralising I refuse to believe that the only alternative to a clapped out Labour government is a Conservative party which has no answers to the big issues: environmentalism without substance, social justice without money, internationalism without Europe.

To this day, following the Devon and Somerset Staghounds – whether on horseback, quadbike or just a clapped out 4x4 – remains the principal means of entertainment in this desolate location.

All the intensely salty ingredients in the lamb recipe - anchovies, Parmesan, black olives - and the Provençal herbs make me long for a red with structure, dryness, the moodiness of a clapped out Citroën bumping up a dirt track.

Rudd protested that here was a "once in a lifetime opportunity to change our broken system" (copyright N Clegg), called AV "a clapped out, won't work form of voting" which would undermine the long-fought historic battle for equal votes for all, transparently counted to achieve a result.

Take a clapped out, almost fit-for-scrap van.

True, Britain has a clapped-out generating system.

A clapped-out 1982 Toyota taxi costs as much as $12,000.

Bits have been dropping off Sidebottom in India like a clapped-out tuk tuk.

The exhausted crew of a clapped-out spaceship has a mission to fulfil: to destroy rogue planets.

Like a tin of WD40 and a clapped-out drill, there has long been a satisfyingly functional relationship between industrial music and techno.