Sentence examples for threadbare fabric from inspiring English sources

But another piece of the town's already threadbare fabric is gone.

The gaps in this threadbare fabric of care are becoming increasingly and painfully evident.

After thirteen years of war, the fabric of the young nation is threadbare.

Not for the first time, James suggests that there is something scary about fabric, of all things — taking the threadbare theme of a ghost in a white sheet and subjecting it to endless, crumpled variations.

The seats were threadbare, a chunk of my armrest was missing, and let's not even talk about the stained fabric.

It was as threadbare as threadbare gets.

JE They are threadbare.

That speech is threadbare.

Is the carpet threadbare?

Katidis' defence may seem a little threadbare.

The furniture is dowdy, the carpet threadbare.