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How to use shabby in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shabby? Here are some examples.

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It was small, cheap, and shabby, but she had still called it home for the last few years.
The shabby redbrick facades of Het Straatje, or the little street, drowse like its denizens in the midsummer heat.
Now they can choose from softer, shabby chic styles to sophisticated uses of toile, cashmere, leather and shearling.
Across from the courtyard were several shabby stone buildings reflecting the moonlight with their worn-out walls.
Not too shabby, but at the turn is usually the point where I would run into trouble.
He was a quiet, mildly alcoholic man in shabby tweeds and a clerical collar.
He wore a moth-eaten old fur cap and a shabby overcoat that was stretched tightly across his paunchy belly.
By dismantling shabby sheds and old lanes, the residents can move to much better houses.
Among the sculpture entries was a charmingly shabby conglomeration of 10 pawnshop diamond rings.
It was the same for several human villagers who exited shabby tents, rubbing sleep from their eyes.
The first walk has a few small hills, the second walk is largely flat, but on a shabby wintery day was a bit dull and uninspiring.
It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold.
His colleagues snicker at the twilight samurai as he leaves, at his shabby dress and general unkemptness as well as his reason for leaving.
They were clearly homeless, wearing shabby clothes and unable to talk properly through their unkept teeth.
We lived in a shabby hut at the foot of a steep mountain on the border of Manchuria near the Yalu River.
She has a frank and guileless style of writing, letting the incredible subject matter remain the focus, rather than any shabby poetic frills.
He came virtually unscathed out of the two scams thanks largely to shabby investigation.
How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess.
The black paint was peeling along the running boards, and the soft grey upholstery looked shabby and faded.
When you see a 500-year-old Venetian building, it may be a bit shabby and possibly even in danger.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They believed the Iron Duke to be the instigator and encourager of a shabby trick.
It is a charming place, rather shabby and footworn, as befits a strictly popular resort, but with a character all its own.
It was not in the least shabby, but a very charming dress which her mother had sent as a part of her christmas box.
He wore shabby English clothes and a small English cap, and looked something like a bullfighter.
A company man, his tunic shabby and open in a negligent fashion at his thick throat, stood waiting for them.
He was an oldish, shabby little fellow, with bad teeth and no hair on his face.
The streets, up which I could see from the afterdeck, looked dirty and the houses shabby.
He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
His clothes, though neatly brushed, were too shabby and overworn for a person of his position.
And while he slept the ground-squirrel ravaged the pockets of his shabby coat.
I kept in the shadows of the shabby buildings of argon City, and I found the window without effort.
I'm sure she had cardamon seeds in her shabby bag, and a carriage with a crest on it waiting for her just around the corner.
The old Norma, straight from biretta's Bookshop, had been pretty in plain serge and shabby fur.
Two days before the execution she arrived, a slab-sided, shabby drudge of a woman.
I have told you often how the palace in Florence is shabby, eaten up with moth and rust.
Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
On the whole he was a thoroughly good and kind man, on whom his moods and impetuousness played shabby tricks.
Whereby it speedily came to pass that he retained only the garments he stood in, and these soon became shabby and wayworn.
Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.
The lees of twenty ducats shabby in his fist told her how near the peril was.
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