Sentence examples for were tattered from inspiring English sources

At the Chabad house, the sofas were tattered and the rooms cramped, but, the students said, it was more haimish.

They would make themselves simple clothes and wear them until they were tattered all in an effort to make sure they didn't purchase the British's mechanically produced cloth.

But because a genizah is essentially a garbage can, most of the manuscripts were tattered and torn; Solomon Schechter, one of the earliest to study the collection, called it "a battlefield of books".

In this Taliban stronghold, about 130 miles from where bombs are dropping in Afghanistan, the prayer rugs lined up on the street were threadbare, and most of the 100 or so men who knelt on them to face Mecca were tattered, too.

If one of the lackeys in the information office read one of our reports that was the least bit critical of Saddam – I remember getting chewed out for writing that the uniforms of the soldiers were tattered – we were punished in one puerile way or another.

Grotesquely wounded people, whose clothes were tattered, or who were made naked by the blast.

Others outfits are tattered and torn.

It's gonna be tattered.

The carpeting is tattered and stained.

Their once-fine gowns are tattered now.

Their gowns, once fine, are tattered.