The pavement grew rougher and dirtier, the houses and small shops that lined the street, shabbier and shabbier.
It looked shabbier and dingier than ever, and there were neither fresh muslin curtains nor blooming plants at the third-story front windows where her mother used to sit and sew.
The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow.
There is nothingshabbier than Drury-lane, in Rome itself.
London is shabby by daylight, andshabbier by gaslight.
He was getting shabbier and shabbier in his apparel; his poor old face looked pinched and thin, and the talk was that he lived on starvation rations.
I found a man thinner and older and shabbier than the Hugh who first attracted my attention by being kind to me.
I could have borne with his being thinner and older; but that he should be shabbier wrung my heart.
Nor did his sense of dignity come between him and the shouldering of his load up the steep and shabby main street of the town, and along sundry shabbier by-streets to the semi-genteel district of Woodland Road, where at No.
Shabbier and shabbier grew the shoes, as we climbed upward.
Lizzie's father used to come home, after tramping about for work, looking as tired as my father did after his long day in the fields and her mother fretted and worried and you could see things getting shabbier and shabbier every week.
The large drawing-rooms with their heavy hangings looked shabbierand dingier than of old; I could not help noticing the neglected look of everything.
She was growing thinner and shabbier of soul, and she knew it.
He lost his first job and took an inferior wage with a shabbier firm.
He remembered very little of the shabbier circumstances of his babyhood, and had all the feelings of a boy born in the purple, to whom it was natural to be proprietor of the landscape, and to patronise the humbler dwellers on the soil.
That bed-chamber to which Mrs. Palliser introduced her step-daughter was even a shade shabbier than the rest of the house.
After what seemed a very long drive, they reached the shabby court and shabbier house where the Wrights lived.
The farther she got from home the shabbier her gown seemed and the more impossible her coat and hat.
A shabbier figure even than of old, although as neat as ever; a white-faced girl, carrying bundles and parcels.
You may want them, and I don't mind being shabbier than you are.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shabbier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
