Example Sentences

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‘A means to counter the sorry threadbareness of imperial Britain’: mods in Brighton, 1966.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2013

One has only to overlook a little threadbareness in the similes, and it is very good oratorical verse.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

A strange thing—this complete confidence seemed to comfort Geissler wonderfully in his threadbareness.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut