Sentence examples for tattered place from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mijbel suggested the government-owned hotel, a slightly tattered place considered Baghdad's finest, as neutral ground.

An enormous gray pile of 4,000 tattered shoes.

Now tattered, posters placed by Mr. Dibble's friends bear a picture of him cradling his 2-year-old daughter, Wallace.

When I first climbed the Hillary Step in 1991, there was only a short section of tattered rope in place.

To believe the righteous indignation of affirmative action's opponents, one must conjure an image of tens of thousands of white children abandoned at the curb of higher education, sobbing as they drag their tattered duffle bags home, their hard-earned places in America's meritocracy forever lost to "less qualified minorities".

In its place is mellowed country, tattered folk and the odd whiff of MOR rock.

The reporters from Xinjiang who stumbled on the factory last week described a place where men in tattered clothing ground rocks by hand to produce sand and talcum powder.

Anytime she has an impulse to spend -- on education, nonessential food or a new blouse -- she imagines the sheriff's knock on the door and what happens after: scrambling to find a new place to live, with tattered credit and meager savings.

Clothes, tattered by the elements and wildlife, were placed in plastic bags.

The Weymouth Carnival, an annual event that features creaking funfair attractions — including a ghost train heavily dependent for its thrills upon the creative use of tattered white sheets and black trash bags — took place last week amid heavy rain.

Some might recoil at the apparent decrepitude of the space, but in Derian's eyes — and ours — he was preserving its tattered poetry, allowing the ghosts of history a place at his often crowded dinner table.