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How to use the word shabby in a Sentence?

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They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they're making it shabby.

Thomas Markle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With the Met Police not willing to do a criminal investigation it is clear a proper, full and impartial investigation needs to be conducted on this shabby and discredited witch hunt.

Gavin Williamson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town. ... They fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol, there's no doubt in my mind that when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing a possible revocation of probation, they made a conscious decision to run, and they did.

Tarrant County

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Sinclair Lewis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Edward Dahlberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden

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14 years ago

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

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14 years ago

There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.

Chinese Proverb

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14 years ago

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