1. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 

2. The coat is worn threadbare.

3. The carpets had worn rather threadbare.

4. She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.

5. The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.

6. She stood shivering in her threadbare dress.

7. He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.

8. The sheets lay tangled, hanging down on the threadbare carpet.

9. As Britain's imperial pretensions became threadbare most of us made the break and entered the post-imperial world.

10. I preferred threadbare hand-me-downs to clothes that exuded boredom from every seam.

11. A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor,[http://] and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.

12. It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet, some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore.

13. Honor had written to ask for some threadbare rugs to be replaced.

14. Despite her bleak background and threadbare, Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.

15. There was a clean but threadbare rug on the floor beside the bed.

16. Increasingly, threadbare public-school systems are turning to parents for goods and services that taxpayers have stopped providing.

17. Pride may lurk under threadbare cloak.

18. The deposit remains uniform State to prevent imprinted threadbare.

19. Pride may lurk under a threadbare not cloak.

20. Pride may lurk a threadbare cloak.

21. He wore his coat threadbare.

22. They basked like reptiles till the sun penetrated the threadbare material and warmed them into movement.

23. The gaslights flickered softly(), and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.

24. Not even his close friends knew of his secret investments as he led the life of a threadbare clergyman.

25. He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light.

26. The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed, a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.

27. Neville rose from his seat and padded across the threadbare carpet to the whisky optic.

28. China's record as a citizen of the world is threadbare.

29. He had thrummed upon this topic till it is threadbare.

30. Suddenly he felt something inside the lining of the threadbare jacket.

1. The coat is worn threadbare.

31. Nearly naked, both males and females wore ill-fitting shorts or old-fashioned knickerbockers, and three or four had donned threadbare jerseys.

32. The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character. " leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.

33. Such threadbare coats and trousers never were seen in Rag Fair.

34. Talk about getting something had become even too threadbare and ridiculous for him.

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36. And in the first half century, recorded music ripoff certain copy right rules made some of the great blues artists died with barely a penny in their threadbare pockets.

37. The Defense Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare.

38. The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra.Sentence dictionary

39. Standing on the threadbare carpet runner in hall, my father blinks.

40. Life in peacetime Britain was grey threadbare dreary and hopeless.

41. The Defence Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare.

42. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.

43. Firm of jaw and purpose, hard of heart and stomach, 007 was a coded signal to the United States that clapped-out, threadbare old Britain remained a force to be reckoned with in the post-war world.

44. A threadbare patch of Brussels carpet covered the centre of the room, and formed an oasis of roses and lilies upon a desert of faded green drugget .

45. On his arrest, he had been careful to take with him a threadbare cap and a shabby sheepskin coat that he had saved from his years in exile.