Sentence examples for was so shabby from inspiring English sources

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"He'd traveled all this way to see the birthplace of someone he obviously revered and it was so shabby.

"All of us thought that it was so shabby and so old and so difficult to make safe that it was time to replace it," said Dr. Robert Pierattini, chief of psychiatry at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, the state's teaching hospital.

IN the early 80's, when the director Woody Allen filmed the movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo" on Piermont's main street, the joke was that the village was so shabby, it had to be spiffed up to approximate the look of a 1930's-era 1930's-era town.

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Everyone around him just looks so shabby, seems to be so shabby.

(The town is so shabby that its mayor is Chris Elliott, scuzzily haggard, with a mullet).

Douglas Graham, another of the Grays' lawyers, said, "You know what's so shabby is that it would have cost them nothing just to give him the car".

(The town is so shabby that its mayor is Chris Elliott, scuzzily haggard, with a mullet). Daniel Levy's sister, Sarah, plays a local waitress.

In fact, it was so small and shabby it hardly merited being called a square; it was little more than a patch of green beside a solitary street lamp.

"They were so destitute, shabby, and ill-looking.

People are wondering whether it only admits really good looking children… Leona Helmsley, "the Queen of Mean," was no Gisele, but her wardrobe wasn't so shabby.

And 2007, when No Country for Old Men won out against There Will Be Blood, Juno, Michael Clayton and Atonement… Well, that wasn't so shabby either.

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