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How to use worm-eaten in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
The old stone walls are, however, left visible at both ends, while the warped, worm-eaten roof trusses are on full view.
Fourteen-centimetre shells sit on the sea floor nearby, in what is left of the worm-eaten wooden boxes that once held them.
Now, on the whole, this sort of vivid reference to rotting flesh and the worm-eaten body is not a very good argument for seduction.
Then you got the fun of walking over a narrow worm-eaten wooden bridge with the water lapping a few inches below.
Imposing at 75 inches on a side and 7 inches deep, the painting, like eight others shown here, has holes drilled in its edges, like worm-eaten driftwood.
Quality guide-lines: dried mushrooms must not have signs of mould or extraneous matter, they must not be worm-eaten, decayed or singed.
They fish a worm-eaten corpse out of the river while swimming.
The popular response to this collapse of worm-eaten certainties has been an un-British surge of mass exhilaration.
On this worm-eaten but over-lit stage, every character must play the part allotted by class or by conviction.
The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
A new range of doors for interiors and main doors, designed taking care of the smallest detail: from worm-eaten wood to wooden nails, from shellac and wax finishings to productive process safety.
He felt he was intruding, and hurried past the door with the coloured glass panes into the Book Room, which smelled mustily of old paper and worm-eaten wood.
Examples from Classical Literature
In the Teynkirche stands the worm-eaten pulpit from which preached John Huss.
I will take it since you offer it in kindness, old dame, this worm-eaten staff.
It will make him cross, and all we shall get will be the specked and worm-eaten ones.
The central compartment, furnished with worm-eaten benches and a clumsily-planed table, was at once keeping room and kitchen.
It was worm-eaten and old, but a test showed it would support them.
She walked slowly down the nave and up the dusty, worm-eaten flight of stairs into the cobwebby regions above.
Youre going to learn, you unmilitary-looking, worm-eaten scab.
My bed was intolerable, and the bedclothes dirty and worm-eaten.
Dry and worm-eaten, a spark upon them became a smoulder, and a smoulder a blaze.
They were frequently fed with bread made from old, worm-eaten ship biscuits, reground into meal and offensive to the smell.
Every morning ropey came grinning into the prison, with a bucket full of the old worm-eaten biscuit from the Julia.
The sequestrum is slowly thrown off, and when separated is circular like a coin and presents worm-eaten edges.
Fill a stewpan with large flap mushrooms, that are not worm-eaten, and the skins and fringe of such as have been pickled.
But to ask me to worship a stuffed purple robe on a worm-eaten throne!
He pointed to a little triangular cupboard of old worm-eaten walnut-wood fixed high in a corner of the room.
I love Christ's glooms better than the world's worm-eaten joys.
The second was littered with fragments of broken furniture, empty picture-frames of worm-eaten wood, shattered vases, boxes without covers, and books torn from their bindings.
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