Sentence examples for getting threadbare from inspiring English sources

"Our democracy is getting threadbare".

Actually, this has been getting threadbare for a while.

Yet the facts are obvious enough: "Food aid" is something firmly built into our national life, the supposed safety net of social security is getting more threadbare by the month – and the question demands to be asked, not for reasons of melodrama, but hard political fact: what kind of country is Britain becoming?

Even the wonderful vocal music is getting a little threadbare from overexposure.

But it has been getting a little threadbare in recent times, and has even come under threat, with no less a person than the newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, suggesting that the country no longer needed slogans.

Gloucester's squad hasn't come cheap, either, but the red card showed just as ruthlessly that they are still getting by with threadbare rags beneath the water line.

And the format itself may be getting a little threadbare: it's the same mix of narration, experts' sound bites, old paintings, period music and actors' voice-overs that has been used in Ken Burns's "Civil War" and many other programs.

It was as threadbare as threadbare gets.

But by 1952 old connections had become threadbare.

When, as so often happens, one wife starts to get a bit threadbare, or negative, you simply pick another with a bit more joie de vivre – though frugal – to a maximum of four.

Worthington denied he was prompted to quit by supporters' unrest and claimed the decision was based on an inability to get any more from threadbare resources.