timeworn
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How to use timeworn in a sentence
Transhumance is a timeworn and yet still relevant practice across Europe and the Mediterranean that sees sheep, goats and cattle herded many miles, linking ecological areas and sometimes making really phenomenal cheese on the way.
It was an altar-tomb, broken and timeworn and almost covered with an accumulation of earth and moss and leaves.
Virginia: The Old Dominion | Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle HutchinsHe leant against the fountain, playing with the cool water which fell with monotonous rhythm into the shallow timeworn basin.
The Gathering of Brother Hilarius | Michael FairlessYou seem to have inherited the timeworn theory that the War of 1914 was entirely provoked by the junker class of Germans.
The Great Prince Shan | E. Phillips OppenheimTen minutes later, a young woman descended from the timeworn hack.
Girls of Highland Hall | Carolyn Watson Rankin
Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a timeworn denizen of the place.
The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for timeworn
/ (ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn) /
showing the adverse effects of overlong use or of old age
hackneyed; trite
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