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How to use outworn in a sentence

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These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilizations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.
Both groups continue to perpetuate the old and outworn doctrines of party politics.
The immune system does this work, targeting and breaking down outworn or foreign materials and expelling them from the body.
Even the narrow passageways were clogged with piles of papers stuffed in among outworn printing presses.
And when the fleeces themselves have outworn their welcome, Patagonia offers a recycling programme to transform them into new clothes.
The management man will have vision, and will find it quite unthinkable that he should follow outworn paths, content merely to criticize.
We simply have to escape outworn constructs and categories to renew and renovate development theory and practice.
We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time.
As a result, states are slowly shifting their sights from outworn national policies to an international approach to the environment.
My sister gave away her shoes from when she was little, having outworn them.
When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.
Let's resolve to choose our precedents and adapt them to suit our needs, while we leave the mossbacks to carry their own load of outworn precedents.
They consider it in hock to the outworn rituals and exigencies of empire, to which even the once promising British Labour movement has been suborned.
In defence of economics it needs to be pointed out that the unwillingness of many economists to discard outworn models is typical of science in general not just economics.
The main elevators in the Bonvin building have been replaced, fire safety is being revised and the most outworn installations and infrastructures are being repaired.
There is no way back to the old outworn standards, and, if we try to restore the ways of living and thinking of before 1939, there is a deadly danger of youth disgustedly turning away from all standards and all values.
Two old men, of the age when one generally prepares for death but who had spiritual energies with the freshness of springtime, were to discover each other in order to renew systems and mentalities quite outworn.
Drawing on the mechanistic, reductionistic mindset of an outworn industrial era, simplistic uniform zoning, codes, and specifications are referenced, as if one 'blueprint' could apply to all situations.
An outworn half-truth always used on wet-behind-the-ears curates and such like.
Examples from Classical Literature
The gingham will last longer than the barege, and will be good for more uses after it is outworn as a dress.
Yet more than one pair of these have I outworn, and many more shall I outwear ere my journeys are ended.
A sleeve of the girl's frock was torn away, the outworn fabric in streamers.
It was in accordance with all these outworn conventions that they conducted the daily round.
The ladder is an old and outworn metaphor in this connexion.
The old 54 age was outworn, and the new began to supersede it.
Merely a little change in that outworn document, the Constitution.
Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning!
The sleeping Roger represented things intolerable and outworn.
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