overworn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Where lines like “don’t give up; don’t stop believing; keep the faith” can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener’s heart like the Grinch on Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
"Do not spurn me in my prayer, For this wand'ring ever longer, evermore, Hath overworn me, And I know not on what shore I may rest from my despair."
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
But thee, O mother, overworn old age, exhausted and untrue, frets with vain distress, and amid embattled kings mocks thy presage with false dismay.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
I was so chill, and overworn, and sad, To be a lady was the only joy I had.
From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis
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