Sentence examples for little tattered from inspiring English sources

I thought I'd see little, tattered boats".

The American dream has been looking a little tattered recently, which makes "The Sympathizer" a historical novel that matches the current mood.

We are a wealthy metro area, so we don't notice around the edges that we're actually getting a little tattered," he said.

Then an ex-paratrooper friend of mine presented me with a little tattered Penguin and said, "You won't look at this now but eventually you'll love it".

Cardamom, pepper, cloves, cinnamon, vanilla; the white petals, a little tattered from yesterday's rainstorm, give off a dizzying scent of spices and Arabian nights.

"It says: 'From Gertie and Ernest, to Sidney with love.' It's a little tattered now but it's still legible on the cover.

The school hall is modest, a little worn and tattered.

Snared in the cruel teeth of the coils were weather-beaten plastic bags that had been shaped by the wind into tattered little sculptures of strange, transfixing delicacy.

Mr. Andrés carefully picked through the tattered little pad for the page that proves Julien brought French fries to America or, as he called them, pommes de terre frites à cru en petites tranches.

He did a lot with a little: those beautiful, tattered white and pearl-beaded dresses inspired by bridal attire, the slouchy green cargo pants that became a hit, the superchic waxed cotton coats based on Barbour jackets.

When Saddam Hussein, defeated in the Persian Gulf war of 1991, had to demonstrate that he was giving up his chemical arsenal, Iraqis protected by little more than tattered cloths over their faces poured some of the agents into ditches and set them on fire — to the shock of inspectors watching in heavy "moon suits".