Sentence examples for to shabby from inspiring English sources

Back then, the block was home to shabby row houses.

Other great works are subjected to shabby premieres, their worth revealed only in ensuing years.

You were asking for it, from the moment you agreed to "shabby chic".

The idea is to turn Lublin's vicinity to shabby, shaky Ukraine and poor, ill-governed Belarus to its advantage.

I've watched it go from shabby and not genteel, to shabby and genteel, to genteel and not shabby.

John Macfarlane created the sets for that show, translating Schicchi from the renaissance to shabby postwar Italy.

The left is a HTC Touch Diamond with a not-to-shabby 528 MHz CPU but on the right, is the new champion, rock'n the powerhouse 800 MHz processor.

Adult Swim have been steadily building up a not-to-shabby music branch — Ghostly International released their latest compilation though Adult Swim, and Sacred Bones's Negative Feedback Resistor also recently put out an album on the site.

Now, 20 years later, he — Randy, that is — has been relegated to shabbier halls.

Uncle Sam has summoned Forbes.com to this shabby backwater to dispel the persistent rumors that he and Santa Claus are, in fact, the same person.

The original skins never set out to look shabby; they wanted to look like good, working class lads cleaned up for a night out.