Sentence examples for threadbare runner from inspiring English sources

A threadbare runner up a flight of stairs is not shabby but chic if the walk-up is an 18th-century "hotel particulier" in the Sixth Arrondissement.

Even though a few initial detractors saw the movie as "dramaturgical pixie dust" and characterized it as "at once tangled and threadbare," "Crash" received mostly glowing reviews and gained steady momentum as competition for that year's Oscar front-runner, "Brokeback Mountain".

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.