Tattered in example sentence

"Of what school art thou, divine sage?""I am a Cynic, lord, because I wear a tattered mantle; I am a Stoic, because I bear poverty patiently; I am a Peripatetic, for, not owning a litter, I go on foot from one wine-shop to another, and on the way teach those who promise to pay for a pitcher of wine."

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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