Sentence examples for tattered edge from inspiring English sources
But the film has a resigned bitterness, hard to shake off, that feels right for the experience of tough guys, from whatever period of history, who find themselves at the tattered edge of what they take to be civilization.
Here, New York, on the tattered edge of the world's first oil patch, is a mere appendage to Pennsylvania and the oil-bearing late Devonian sandstone underlying the Allegheny foothills on both sides of the state line.
The mountain range, which stretches about 70 miles, from Valencia to San Bernardino County, actually forms part of the tattered edge between two vast continental plates, which grind unmercifully against each other, Silver said.
This way you can still have a tattered edge, but it will be less likely to turn into a giant hole that ruins your costume.
But it too has limitations, especially near the tattered edges of the pages.
Because I wanted" to "see the rough, tattered edges of the world before they were mugged of mystery".
Then, Pyle wrote, he "reached up and gently straightened the points of the Captain's shirt collar, and then he sort of rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound.
It was worst of all, the grubby paper taken from his wallet and carefully unfolded, its tattered edges and the blue letters of the address offered to her as a gift might be.
Even back when I became a regular, before the city had so unapologetically traded its tattered edges for the relentless sheen of gentrification, his barbershop was a humble anachronism, somewhere too quietly perfect to last.
He is only 29 -- young by any standard outside of sports -- but Sampras put on a performance with yellowed, tattered edges on a surface that provided him with a stage for his coming of age.
Dare to dis Vegas, with its yellowed, tattered edges showing everywhere, its billboards for "discount bankruptcy" more ubiquitous than Wayne Newton signs, the urban face for a state with the nation's highest unemployment rate and percentage of homes in foreclosure, and you get a Goodman mouthful.
