Sentence examples for war-worn from inspiring English sources
The word "war-worn" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a person, object, or place that has been worn down or become deteriorated due to battle or war. For example, you could say, "The soldiers returned from the war, looking war-worn and exhausted from their long journey."
Although his regime was an autocracy, Augustus, being a tactful and imaginative master of propaganda of many kinds, knew how to cloak that autocracy in traditionalist forms that would satisfy a war-worn generation perhaps, most of all, the upper bourgeoisie immediately below the leading nobility, since it was they who benefited from the new order more than anyone.
With war-worn eyes he perceived that they spaced themselves equally, just far enough apart to reach the next bird.
Glancing at the group of young men and women now clustered at the bar, Mr. Furst could find none of the gloom that used to hang like a fog over those war-worn European refugees.
The Army has borne much of the burden, and it will need a lot of help to replace war-worn equipment and replenish a strained and war-weary force.
According to authors R.H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast, submarines assigned to training duties were "war-worn craft" unfit for service.
Another request that could be considered more loosely tied to the additional 30,000 troops is the $1.7 billion for reset, to replace war-worn equipment, particularly losses.
That cheeky behavior was nothing compared to what Margaret Thatcher once faced: a T-shirt campaigning against nuclear war, worn by the designer Katharine Hamnett back in 1984.
I think if the war wears on, confidence could fall".
It became a patriotic song as the war wore on.
The figure for War wears a Roman soldier's helmet and a World War I-era gas mask.
Joe Medicine Crow, the last living Plains Indian war chief, who fought in the second world war wearing war paint beneath his uniform.
