SHABBY in a Sentence
Learn SHABBY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
69 example sentences for SHABBY, such as:
1. He was satisfied by the shabby chairs.
2. The old house has grown shabby with age.
3. You look rather shabby in those clothes.
4. Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
5. Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.
2. The old house has grown shabby with age.
3. You look rather shabby in those clothes.
4. Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
5. Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHABBY
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
shabby
a. showing signs of wear and tear
a. mean and unworthy and despicable
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 In other days, Scarlett would have been bitter about her shabby dresses and patched shoes but now she did not care, for the one person who mattered was not there to see her.
2 She picked up Ellen's Paisley shawl to wrap about her but the colors of the faded old square clashed with the moss-green dress and made her appear a little shabby.
3 She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
4 Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
5 He followed her glance about the room, with its worn furniture and shabby walls.
6 If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
7 No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty.
8 If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table.
9 Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.
10 That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried.
11 It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
12 She rushed into the room pouring out: "I'm afraid you'll think the teachers have been shabby in not coming near you, but we wanted to give you a chance to get settled."
13 He was satisfied by the shabby chairs.
14 There was only Miles Bjornstam, in his black wedding-suit, walking quite alone, head down, behind the shabby hearse that bore the bodies of his wife and baby.
15 Now she lay across the bed, in crumpled lavender cotton and shabby pumps, very feminine, utterly cowed.
Example Sentence:
1 The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic.
2 A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St.Petersburg.
3 Two other men, grizzled and vaguely shabby, walked in surly conversation.
4 Embarrassed by his parents' shabby, working-class appearance, Doug felt their visit to his school would bring him nothing but chagrin.
5 The old house has grown shabby with age.
6 You look rather shabby in those clothes.