Sentence examples for shabby time from inspiring English sources

Referring to "the sad and shabby time we live in," the daughter in the play, 45 and wasted, calls the others "pious hypocrites".

I got used to shopping in big cities and the mall seemed sadder and shabbier every time I came back to Rhode Island to visit.

2. $85 million is shabby The Times writes that this amount is "not so shabby," which explains why Senator McCain is opting in.

Trieste has turned from a shabby port that time forgot into an exuberant summer playground.

The spec sheet wasn't too shabby at the time either — it featured a 1GHz processor, what appeared to be a 7-inch screen running at 188 ppi, 3G/WiFi radios, and either 16 or 32GB of internal storage, all crammed into a frame that was 7mm thick.

That same languid casualness that makes his pull-up jumpers look so smooth also makes his long-range shot — the accuracy of which is dependent on Gay shooting the same way every time — look shabby and unrefined.

And the film is enormously entertaining and deeply stupid because it cheerfully caters to every male dream (chic and shabby at the same time) and finds the same scrap of chamois leather that can put a shine on both actors.

Make sure the clothes you wear look classy but a little shabby at the same time.

It's the first respectable train of the day: any earlier, you'd be too tired to confront the shabby, sensational and, at times, smelly intensity of Europe's largest flea market, the Lille Braderie.

The graphics are great and the sound effects aren't too shabby, but there are times when your CO is trying to tell you things and it's barely audible (or I'm just deaf).

Meanwhile, in Havana, I saw homeless people for the first time: men with shabby clothes, some clearly mentally ill, searching through trash bins or wandering aimlessly.