Sentence examples for tattered to from inspiring English sources

They see vast piles of black rubble being picked over by firefighters, ironworkers, police officers, clergymen and rescue dogs; surrounding buildings with smashed windows framing eerie peeks into abandoned offices; cranes loudly and slowly removing massive beams; and American flags -- on buildings, from cranes and in one case, tattered to almost a shred, flying from what once was a lightpost.

All of this came crashing down around me as I realized that there was sadly nothing left for me and even a friendship was now tattered to shreds.

You're tattered to expect the next story will be even more breakneck and obscene, and then it proves to be a slow burn using religion for kindling.

The young man made a show of searching through the bills to find a fifty that he claimed was too tattered to accept.

Compared with the blues singing of role models that stretch from Ms. Brown back to Bessie Smith, hers seems generic and her voice too tattered to carry off the more difficult technical flourishes.

But one of the consolations for European golf is that its most luminous star at least finished the day with his reputation and confidence back from tattered to being merely damaged.

It is tucked away off the main street of this little town, with only a vaguely tattered sign to show the way to the parking lot and the low building at the end of it.

Nowadays men running for office need a pair of clean but slightly tattered khakis to wear while addressing labor groups, and a Brooks Brothers suit to speak on the ladies' club circuit.

Anyone driving down Ninth Street, a grimly tattered boom-to-bust boulevard, suddenly encounters Fare & Square gleaming and bustling like a mirage, like the supermarkets in the middle-class towns flourishing farther off in the Delaware Valley.

Prieste, 103 years old, legally blind and severely deaf, returned the slightly faded and tattered flag to the I.O.C. today as the organization began a session leading up to the start of the Games on Friday.

With demons on the rise, our shrunken world needs the United States, however tattered its image, to stand up for the values and norms it claims to represent.