Tattered in example sentence

And as he thought of their past labour--wasted labour,and barren effort--of the mortal struggle taken up afresh and in vaineach day, of the energy expended by this tattered crew who were going tobegin again, not knowing where, this life of hideous misery, he longedto cry out to them: "Tumble yourselves overboard, rather, with your women and your littleones."

More example sentences with word tattered

This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.

Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band, and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.

He lived in constant fear every day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped away from him, as it had before.

And it was this tattered complexity in the rock record that obscured its meaning until relatively recently.

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