Sentence examples for timeworn from inspiring English sources

'timeworn' is an acceptable word in written English
You can use it to refer to something that has been around for a long time and appears aged or worn. For example, "The timeworn furniture in the attic had been there for generations."

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timeworn

adjective

Showing the effects of wear due to long use.

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Women have also decoded the timeworn cultural assumptions behind the GOP's obsession with our ladyparts.

A "travesty", was Mrs Clinton's word at the time.On top of this, Mr Xi was made to endure the timeworn American sermon on how observing human rights at home would be in China's own long-term interest.

Filmed in Detroit, timeworn buildings once filled with promise now rot away on the road side, while another, older ghost-town, built during another boom, sits at the bottom of a nearby reservoir.The local bully (named Bully and played by Doctor Who's Matt Smith, pictured above), is a tyrant in a gold-sequined jacket who cuts the heads off rats and the lips off locals just for the hell of it.

Mr Dybek considers several similarly timeworn themes, such as the spaces that grow between people, and especially the currents that set fathers and sons adrift.

"When I was fighting against dictatorship, she was at the heart of it".Into this timeworn invective, Kim Jong Un, North Korea's pudgy young dictator, threatened on December 1st what an adviser to Miss Park calls "a direct lob" against her: to have another go this month at putting a rocket into space in defiance of the outside world and United Nations resolutions that see this as a missile test.

In return, he gave China's timeworn answer.

Even the anti-corruption drive, though broadly popular, has drawbacks: Mr Xi is attacking his own power base of party cadres and government officials.He has responded to such worries by reaching back in the party's playbook to the timeworn tactic of a mind-numbing ideological campaign.

According to the BCC, this sector has increased in value tenfold over the past two decades.Royal Doulton's failings are on display at its shop in Stoke, in a jumble of timeworn ranges from glassware to tableware, from intricate porcelain figures to mighty commemorative Toby jugs.

Courbet succeeded in ridding his painting of artistic clichés, contrived idealism, and timeworn models.

"Oh, those poor Steubenville boys, with such promising careers and their lives in ruins!" many voices of the American media cried, sliding into those timeworn tracks of victim-blaming.

The epic struggle that followed ensured that today's date would be fixed in the calendar as one that  – in the timeworn cliché – 'every schoolboy knows'.

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