How to Use in tatters in a Sentence

in tatters

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• By the time Khamenei died, his legacy was in tatters.
  — Jackie Northam, NPR, 28 Feb. 2026
• Boris Nikolic’s career looked to be in tatters.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 11 Mar. 2026
• Seven years on, that vision is in tatters.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2026
• The crew issued a mayday call, as the run-in with the storm left the front of the aircraft in tatters.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• But that once sweet brotherly bond is now in tatters and has been for several years.
  — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 6 July 2026
• Hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule have been left in tatters.
  — Ingrid Formanek, CNN, 28 June 2023
• Hunger and disease are lurking, and the economy is in tatters.
  — Rahim Faiez and Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2023
• Ukraine's economy is in tatters.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
• There are times when our emotions are tattered, and the language that conveys them is also in tatters.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• And this season, with the rotation in tatters and the bullpen overtaxed, the more time off the better.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
• The manuscript library, which had been kept in several rooms, had been left in tatters.
  — Bora Erden, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• Mike Zimmer had just been fired, and the team was in tatters after two non-playoff seasons.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• As the deadline approached, Vancouver’s team and plans were in tatters.
  — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
• The country’s food safety net — already in tatters — has been grievously abused.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025
• Iran’s economy has been in tatters for years because of sanctions imposed by the West.
  — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
• For his efforts, Carr was soon kicked out of Hollywood and left with a career in tatters.
  — Nathan Smith, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• When the regime fell in 1979, the country's economy was in tatters.
  — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
• From homelessness to crime, the California dream has been left in tatters for many.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Today, those traditions may be in tatters, but Kennan’s counsel has lost none of its salience.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• Even more bizarre, her nightgown, a wedding gift from Depp’s detox doctor, was in tatters, with raw meat wrapped inside the pieces.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2022
• Though the pitching staff was in tatters one year after a historic championship run, the Sox passed on adding arms at great cost.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The once-thriving world of Iko is in tatters at the mercy of the Giants who rule the 10 realms.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
• The economy, Europe's poorest before the war, has been left in tatters.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Cubs manager is occupied with a pitching staff in tatters.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Months of fierce fighting across Sudan has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 17 June 2023
• The economy, by most metrics Europe's weakest before the war, has been left in tatters.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• But by then, Smollett’s reputation was in tatters.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
• The Fukushima countryside was no longer a fruit kingdom, and its farmers’ livelihoods were in tatters.
  — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024
• Arizona's offense was in tatters, struggling to move the chains on key situational downs.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2021
• But though his legacy now lays in tatters, not everything Trump has done in the Middle East is wrong.
  — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021