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
I watched thee when the fever glazed thine eyes, Yielding my couch and stretched me on the ground, When overworn with watching, ne'er to rise From thence if thou an early grave hadst found.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
The summer was now something overworn; the sultry dregs of August were ever and anon stirred by the cool finger of September.
From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian
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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