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Sentence Examples Squeezing past a tatty door and stepping on electric cables that fed the heaters, I entered a poorly lit interior. A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll. My mother was a widow, I was the eldest of five and my tatty uniform had been bought second or third-hand. The flowers are getting tatty and I've driven by there often enough to see that. It was slightly tatty around the edges, with grubby window frames and slapdash paintwork. It might be tatty and simply too disorderly for sophisticated European palates. She pointed with a beringed finger to a Georgian house with a tatty van parked outside it. So when lawn edges become overgrown and tatty, it can have an adverse effect on the look of the whole garden. I think there a couple of pretty sad, tatty tapes from rehearsals at our parents' place. He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold. We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again. To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself. It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses. Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition. The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale. I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on. A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand. The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw. Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound. She found herself in a rather tatty entrance hallway, with new maroon flock wallpaper and, less impressively, peeling paint and worn carpeting. Show More Sentences Forget-me-nots will probably be looking mildewed and tatty soon, so pull them up and dispose of them. For barefoot boys as young as four in tatty shirts, to turbaned men in their sixties, football is a passion. No more tatty trouser hems dragging through mud and sucking up puddle water like blotting paper. She had long, brown tatty hair and wore clothes that were nothing more than rags that hung loosely off her fragile, underfed body. The offender is described by police as grubby and tatty looking, with a very strong smell of body odour. Come daylight, I decided to try the first class bar with its rows of squishy green velveteen sofas and tatty carpet. She was wearing tatty clothes and her grubby hands clutched dozens of plastic bags. It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room. In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti. Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf. There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn. I got used to sordid digs, ghastly dressing rooms and tatty restaurants in Pitsville. I have a copy of the second edition, its original dust jacket tatty and grimy but intact. The false rumour was tatty, but the Prime Minister's guiltless acknowledgement of it was refreshing. Somewhere on my bookshelves, I've got many a dog-eared and tatty book from the 1980s and early 90s about the home video revolution. The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty. There is a row of artfully tatty shops a palmist, a photo studio, a display of baby incubators. If so, Britain's tatty universities and demoralised dons may have a long wait for the hoped-for megabucks. Like most people, I find shopping in our soulless malls and tatty clone high streets an increasingly tedious chore. Lonrho's hotel portfolio was reduced to just one tatty hostelry, in Mozambique. Show More Sentences Cutting it at the wrong time seems to have left it tatty and reduced the flowers and berries. The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife. A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks and a tatty old jumper. The action takes place in a tatty hotel managed by Helena who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife. These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted. For Asia's hip and swanky people, carrying a mobile phone with a cracked screen and a tatty plastic cover is tantamount to a crime against fashion. It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves. It's all very well for old fogies, with their pensions and their paid-up mortgages, to wander ghost-like about their business in a tatty, run-down town, resisting change. I put down the big blue pencil, tidied up the last pile of now really, truly tatty papers, stuck a paper clip on it and consigned it to the stack. Amidst the detritus of old amplifiers, beaten up electric guitars and drum kits was a tatty white plastic bag. Incidentally, the chard lasted all winter and, although the leaves looked unappetisingly tatty, it was good to have something interesting in the garden. After this year, the tatty old displays of old just won't be good enough. At the Captain Elias, Namir the biochemist has returned from buying bread pushing two rather tatty bicycles, far from the shiny ones that tourists are riding. Paula, meanwhile, looked exactly like Flo with her curlers and a tatty housecoat that had seen better days. The building remains elegant, but is now rather worn and tatty. Grieve apologises for the provisional feel of the office, a slightly tatty affair in the warren-like overflow-from-the-overflow across the road from Portcullis House. In their study, the scientists confirmed that MurJ flips a tatty molecule from one side of a bacterial cell membrane to the other. Right now some of the books are missing pages or are so tatty they are sellotaped together. They sit at the leatherette wheel of their 100-grand Mercs, temporarily emasculated by the 7in disc of red light, and are possessed by a wrenching, envious rage at the tatty bicycle soaring off into the distance. All are old and tatty but have more seasons of sensible use. Show More Sentences That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street. We have long had, for example, bizzies, bezzies, bevvies, blurts, bifters and scallies, scuffers, scone 'eads, tatty 'eads, twirlies and trainies. Examples from Classical Literature The crossing outside Pinfold Medical Centre, Pinfold Street has become a faded, tatty barcode on Darlaston's main drag. I've got a few named penstemons that survived winter but look tatty. Find more words! 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