Sentence examples for had worn out from inspiring English sources
The unwilling receptionist's patience — already thin — had worn out and the line went dead.
By 2013, two of Kepler's four reaction wheels had worn out, preventing the spacecraft from continuing its original survey.
Most English people ate the mutton of animals at the end of their lives, generally because their teeth had worn out and they could no longer feed.
Old friendships, new projects, bigger deals, concern for a young artist or cultural organization, because white asparagus was in season, because his loden coat had worn out, because his wife and his boyfriend were dead?
He was right: the barn did have radiant heating, but the rubber tubing channeling the hot water under the floors had worn out over the years and was leaking.
In Bellows Falls, Henrietta Howland Robinson Green, an investor then considered the richest woman in America, reportedly did not change her undergarments until they had worn out, rebuffed heat and hot water, and refused to pay for a doctor to treat her son's broken leg, which was eventually amputated.
