Sentence examples for shabby display from inspiring English sources

(Indeed, Massimiliano Allegri claimed that the shabby display was a good thing, as it would stop his players from getting complacent before their Champions League game in midweek).

Today the word sophistic refers to a shabby display of learning or to specious reasoning; it refers, consequently, to an image of the Sophists that resulted from the attacks upon them led by such reformers as Plato.

Yet his life is a wreck: he breaks up dry ramen noodles in his shabby apartment, his medal displayed like something in a pawn shop.

According to this beautiful diagram pictured above, the iPTV wireless monitor has a 7-inch widescreen display – not too shabby.

Ecstatic and jubilant, the shabby youth before the cameras displaying their makeshift weapons and shouting curses to the president-pharaoh were nothing short of joyful.

The shop front is dirty, the decor shabby and the goods inside are displayed without the slightest attention to aesthetics.

The foods were elegant to look at, but the over‐all display was undistinguished, if not to say shabby.

It looks like a medical procedure, not a wax display from a "torture museum" in a shabby seaside resort.

I like the look but wouldn't want to characterise it as generic shabby chic; there's real craft and creativity on display, and the whole arrangement just works.

A gloomy wall of shabby houses with tiers of balconies stretches across the stage, parting to display an equally lackluster interior.

The cannier, cinematic one will instead make a display of the shoes, arranging her feet on a shabby-chic desk next to a Grolsch bottle of daisies atop a stack of French translations.