Sentence examples similar to virtually threadbare from inspiring English sources

The formula is nearly threadbare.

Most CONIFA teams are equally threadbare.

But, like most sincerities, it's a little threadbare.

Most are dressed in tattered blankets, threadbare shawls, and disheveled clothing though some wear colorful sashes and hats.

Nearly three decades later, the Trump Foundation is still a threadbare, skeletal operation.

Yet, Mr. Salo, the governor, expelled by protesters from his suite of offices on the second floor of the Lviv Region State Administration, is virtually powerless, scurrying between makeshift temporary quarters as he struggles to maintain an increasingly threadbare illusion that his boss, Ukraine's embattled President Viktor F. Yanukovych, is still running this breakaway part of the country.

It was as threadbare as threadbare gets.

JE They are threadbare.

That speech is threadbare.

Is the carpet threadbare?

That thesis is now threadbare.