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How to use tattered in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Tattered means rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. Example: “He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.”

Examples of tattered by meaning

adjectiveRent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.

  • The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress

More sentences with tattered

  • He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.From the entry beswathe
  • She wore a tattered jean jacket.From the entry jean
  • And it was completely tattered, because she’d been crying so much.2017 May 18, Mickey Rapkin, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the…. From the entry kleenex
  • Inside, the percebeiros stand in front of the sale table in their tattered trousers.2013 August 10, Christoph Otto, “Fortune on the rocks”, in Daily Telegraph, London, pages 26-31. From the entry percebeiro
  • Hard skin on feet, blackened toes, tattered shorts, skin and bones.2008, Sanchita Islam, “The Pink House”, in Sarah Broughton, editor, Gungi Blues, Brentwood, Essex: Chipmunkapublishing, page 47. From the entry sleep rough
  • Yet I shall, in bitter revenge, unspin this flesh And cut my tattered existence free of all its tarnished innocence.2015, R J Zargle, The Tragedy Of Life's Cruel Wisdom, page 7. From the entry unspin
  • Underneath it she wore a loose black sweater, a long, tattered black skirt, black patterned hose, and ankle-high black boots.2010, Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 332. From the entry witch's hat
  • The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.1949, The Atlantian, volume 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, page 41. From the entry drop
  • Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry habiliment
  • On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M Göknar. From the entry ghazi
  • Their children, with unpronounceable, unspellable names, came to school in tattered clothes, the boys in drab vests and the girls in more colorful ones.1992, Hayden Carruth, Suicides and Jazzers. From the entry unspellable
  • The crepoline sandwich was sewn onto a silk mounting, dyed to match the original silk, so the tattered edge is hardly noticeable.1989, The Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia, page 13. From the entry crepoline
  • The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14. From the entry sulcate
  • Below are some of my notes and drawovers, pushing the HOC artists to make small adjustments like increasing the size of his hands and making his undershirt more tattered.2023, Mattel, Stuart Bam, The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, page 12. From the entry drawover
  • Some policemen in their high visibility yellow jackets came round the corner, followed by League for the Liberation of Nobodies demonstrators in their tattered newspaper hats and coats.2009, Mike Hockney, The Last Bling King. From the entry blingless
  • When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water.1991, Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 569. From the entry cirque
  • Forty or fifty women, half of them with shaven heads, are sitting on the stairs, among the refuse on the floor, on the tattered remains of ancient beds and sofas.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC. From the entry supernumerary

Meaning of tattered

  1. adjective Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.
  2. adjective Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
  3. adjective Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.

Full definition of tattered

Questions about tattered in a sentence

How do you use tattered in a sentence?
Tattered is used as an adjective. For example: “He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.”
What is a short sentence with tattered?
“She wore a tattered jean jacket.”
What does tattered mean?
Tattered means rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.

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