Sentence examples for having been worn out from inspiring English sources
She was detached on 11 June, her gun barrels having been worn out by fire, and proceeded to Pearl Harbor to have her guns relined in preparation for the invasion of mainland Japan.
He had been worn out by her, Lei had said toward the end of the marriage, not without bitterness.
How much would you pay for two sweaty vests that have been worn out by use in a Broadway play?
When Mr. Cole bought half of it, in 1995, the land had been worn out by conventional farming.
Speaking in his native Spanish, Chapman's voice sounded tired, as if his answer had been worn out, when asked his opinion on when he might start.
Probably everyone, at one time or another, has been worn out by an uninspired documentary that trumpets the wonders of nature without eliciting any awe.
Those who have followed his career won't be surprised, either, by his progression from aesthetic anarchist to savvy, all-purpose designer and illustrator whose street cred has been worn out by his all-too-successful commercial ventures.
When Maclise died, he was said to have been worn out by overwork and depressed by the death of his patron Prince Albert and the cancellation of the remaining grandiose paintings planned for the Palace of Westminster.
Even running without help, Wanjiru easily finished ahead of Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco, who lurked behind the lead pack, then picked off the other front-runners who had been worn out by Wanjiru.
Some of Petrarch's contemporaries thought she was just a symbol and a pretext, though on the flyleaf of his Virgil he noted not only the date of his original glimpse of her but also that 20 years later he had news of her death in the plague – and a passing remark implies she was married and might have been worn out over the years with childbearing.
