How to Use weatherworn in a Sentence
weatherworn
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Its weatherworn buildings sit on a spit of rocky beach only feet from the rising gulf.
—Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 2019-11-01
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Ruta Gailīte lives with her grown son, also named Jānis, in a weatherworn house on the last block of the town’s short main street.
—Amy Thielen, Saveur, 2018-10-10
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The museum has restored hiking trails amid weatherworn stone walls and is offering tours of the collection this summer.
—New York Times, 2021-06-20
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An adult bald eagle, as majestic as a national emblem should be, stared intently at the silty sea from its perch high in a weatherworn cottonwood tree.
—Joseph Robertia, Alaska Dispatch News, 2017-07-15
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When the first crack appeared in the ceiling of her weatherworn Yakutsk apartment, Larisa Tikhonova paid it little mind.
—Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 2021-10-05
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In the hallway of a weatherworn lodge that has stood on stilts in the Chesapeake Bay for more than 90 years, a negotiation is underway.
—Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 2019-10-31
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Trinkets and souvenirs filled the shelves of boutiques by the ferry terminal, and behind them stood shops, hotels, and office blocks that looked almost space-age after the dilapidated, weatherworn townscapes of the Comoros.
—Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 2020-01-06
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