Sentence examples for threadbare life from inspiring English sources

He doesn't lead a threadbare life on the margins of an increasingly prosperous society.

Donald Navard, 71, a retired bartender, wants something better than a threadbare life of bedbugs and institutional food for his niece, Dorothy.

I told him I had had a bad meal, taken a walk, seen a museum and generally gotten an unedited glimpse of the grim and threadbare life of East Germany.

Suddenly he was a widower and a single parent, eking out a threadbare life in his Islington lodgings, and working incessantly to dam the flood of remorse and grief at his wife's premature death.

Which didn't help his threadbare social life.

Five years later he and his family have moved from their peaceful if threadbare Western life to the wilds of Westchester, from which Barry commutes to Lower Manhattan.

The real failure is Ellis's inane, sophomoric script, with repeated lines such as "I don't understand!" and "I can't handle it!" padding out the threadbare emotional life of its characters.

But his spirit is threadbare: "He had slept through life, let the currents take him.

Norman Wisden was born in London on Feb. 4, 1915, into a life more threadbare than any he portrayed on screen.

It's also made us both very aware of the more threadbare elements of British life and culture.

As if life had become threadbare, with the light peeking through.