Production budget: $3m, adjusted to $41.2m in 2016 Box office gross: $9m, adjusted to $123.8m in 2016 William Young's six-act stage adaptation of Ben-Hur finally wore out its welcome in 1917, with a sixth and final run on Broadway.
It finally wore out and he went back to look for another.
When the contacts in the mechanical dial finally wore out in 1999, I splurged on a $2100 36-inch Sony Wega XBR tube TV with squarish 4:3 screen.
Would Emerson and Aristotle find their hair standing on end, or would they grin so hard their mouth muscles finally wore out?
As a movie star with a lot of pals, he lived a life beyond consequence until he finally wore out the endless mercies of the entertainment business.
Mr. Sherpa, who has a five-year work visa, says that when the mountain finally wears out his legs and back, he will hang up his crampons, put the yaks out to pasture and, he hopes, become a full-time New Yorker.
The current Pescaria (fish market) is a 19th-century incarnation of the original Venetian fish market that lasted at least 600 years, until constant pounding finally wore out the paving stones.
"He just finally wore out".
When it finally wore out, he upgraded a few years ago to a Cadillac.
In November of last year, that stent finally wore out and a new one was deployed.
More Pakistanis then ever before, I think, recognize that the generals' wars have brought neither victory nor stability, and whatever is the precise relationship between the ISI and the Haqqani network, the idea of maintaining jihadist groups as "lashkers" (tribal warriors) for use in future Pakistan-India conflicts seems to be finally wearing out its welcome, as well.
