Examples of using Threadbare in English and their translations into Spanish
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He was a starving student with this threadbare suit and mismatched shoes.
Scarves and kerchiefs become old and threadbare too quickly.
The consultations with troop-contributing countries have become increasingly threadbare.
This is a story about teachers-- their threadbare lives and struggles.
A brown, threadbare headscarf over her hair,
Basic Standard Rooms have threadbare sheets and tube-style TVs,
The United Nations presents a shattered image with a threadbare moral authority, despite the important early successes in decolonization
There is the occasional complaint about threadbare furniture, spotty housecleaning, and malfunctioning heat or plumbing.
of making landscape into something slick and threadbare from being looked at too much.
Towels tend to be threadbare, and guests find that when the hotel is full up,
All those threadbare remnants of the well-made play,
The clothes were threadbare, and made me look suspicious
And as I look at his matted hair and his threadbare clothes, my gut level response is revulsion.
the-the feel of the, you know, threadbare calico on your bony shoulders.
the historical reliability of the biblical story of David looks threadbare.
the art is wearing absolutely threadbare.
children in threadbare clothing clamour to have their photographs taken outside the 16th Century church that the Azeris once used as a cattle shed.
Though well-maintained, a renovation is overdue-- the wood laminate runner laid down over the faded floral carpet in the heavily trafficked lane from the front door to the front desk may hide the most threadbare bits, but it's not pretty.
if you can look past threadbare carpets and dated rooms, then it's worth it to put the….
the nurses required to wash their remaining shirts threadbare.