Sentence examples for threadbare existence from inspiring English sources

"It was a pretty horrible, threadbare existence for quite a while," he says.

In the years before, they bring up two rather unhappy children while sharing a threadbare existence in Europe.

At least a few of Italy's storied companies seemed doomed to extinction, and others faced a threadbare existence.

From the early '90s on, Mr. Joisel was a full-time origami maker, his art so labor intensive that despite the prices it commanded he led a markedly threadbare existence.

After leaving The Times, Mr. Phillips lived, in Mr. Auletta's account, a contented if threadbare existence, preaching the Gospel on the Columbia University campus, near his home, and managing the fellowship's affairs.

That would be Monsieur Pierre Pain, a middle-aged veteran of the First World War, his lungs seared at Verdun, now scratching out a threadbare existence in Paris by virtue of a modest government pension.

Given how threadbare their existences had long been, the idea that Congress had to ease the plight of bankers as soon as possible struck many on St. Ann's Avenue as preposterous.

The formula is nearly threadbare.

Can existence not exist?

It was as threadbare as threadbare gets.

JE They are threadbare.