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Shabby
"Shabby" in a Sentence (29 examples)
Apparently that shabby flat is vacant.
The room was empty except for a shabby bed.
The shabby compartment remained vacant.
The shabby flat is vacant.
The hotel room where we stayed was shabby.
The small house had come to look shabby, though it was just as good as ever underneath.
My car looks shabby in comparison with his new one.
He is mixed up with something shabby.
She saw the shabby little house, but she didn't hurry by.
In the end, we ended up eating at that shabby restaurant.
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They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
[A]s there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, […]
[C]ommonplace books are generally new, or at least in fine bindings. And here was a shabby little old book, such as, if it had been commonplace, would not have been likely to be the companion of a young lady at the bottom of a quarry— […]
[They] lived […] in one of the shabbiest streets in the debatable land between Pimlico and Chelsea—by courtesy, South Belgravia.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
[T]hings got shabbier and got shabbier summer after summer. The mat was fading; the wall-paper was flapping. You couldn't tell any more that those were roses on it. Still, if every door in a house is left perpetually open, and no lockmaker in the whole of Scotland can mend a bolt, things must spoil.
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
The ſame gentleman, vvhenever he vvanted credit for a ſuit of cloaths, alvvays made the propoſal in a laced coat; for he found by experience, that, if he appeared ſhabby on theſe occaſions, his taylor had taken an oath againſt truſting; […]
She told her name, and vvas ſhevvn, by a little ſhabby foot-boy, into a parlour.
He was an affectionate brother, always glad to do a good turn to his sisters—who lived with a shabby old half-pay father, […]
shabby treatment
It was voted a shabby excuse.
I, being more of a native, and familiar with their customs, knew that this shabby present was an insult to us.
What shabby things a man will do when he's eaten up with jealousy! But what a comfort those shabby things are to him! […] I'm disgusted with myself for having stooped to such a contemptible act.
His painting is not too shabby.
[M]y Lord Duke's entertainments were both ſeldom and ſhabby […]
So unlooked-for a paradox required to be defended by the strongest arguments: who, then, would expect such shabby, not arguments, but hints of arguments, as the author presents us with?
You'll be one of those tough, square, solid middle-aged men, like a shabbying brown bear, your golden crew-cut greying judiciously at the temples.
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