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Example sentences for "shabbiest"

Lexicographically close words:
sez; seze; sgiath; sgraffito; shabbier; shabbily; shabbiness; shabby; shack; shackle
  1. The smallest and shabbiest stood at right angles to it, showing a shabby frontage of two windows to the gardens, and having its front entrance in a side street.

  2. Just because he was clever with the reins, and could do a'most anything with any old knacker of a 'oss, the guv'nor sets him up the shabbiest of any man as went outer the yard.

  3. For my own part I would much rather have the shabbiest old house which had belonged to one's ancestors, which had come to one as a heritage, by divine right as it were, instead of being bought with newly made money.

  4. If we only just had the tiniest, shabbiest house in the world, and could be married and help each other!

  5. The parlour at home always looks ugliest and barest and shabbiest when I have been here," she thought, as she turned away from the glass and moved towards the door.

  6. She put on her bonnet and shawl--the darkest and shabbiest she possessed.

  7. But the knuckle-duster was a complication; for it was his right hand that I had to watch; and yet I could not afford to free for an instant his left, armed as it was with that shabbiest of weapons.

  8. The plain deal coffin, lying bare on the shabbiest of hearses, appealed to her innermost heart.

  9. Nancy nodded brightly and took her leave, and Priscilla, putting on her waterproof and her shabbiest hat, went down into the hall to meet Rosalind.

  10. So Prissie, in her ill-made brown dress, her shabbiest hat and her muddy boots, had to follow in the wake of Rosalind Merton and her friend.

  11. The congregation and many other people followed him there, and he later took to the street corners because he found that the shabbiest men liked that best.

  12. On that day I had my first sight of the poverty which implies squalor, and felt the curious distinction between the ruddy poverty of the country and that which even a small city presents in its shabbiest streets.

  13. I recall a brilliant Frenchwoman who was filled with amazement because one of the shabbiest men reflected a reading of Schopenhauer.

  14. And so it was arranged that Anne Pierson, the shabbiest and poorest girl in Oakdale High School, was to help receive at one of the prettiest and most charming houses in town.

  15. If Miss Pierson doesn't know already that she's the shabbiest girl in school, it's high time she found it out.

  16. She was in her very shabbiest and oldest dress to-day, and the joy and brightness of her appearance of twenty-four hours ago had absolutely left her young face.

  17. Sylvia, in her shabbiest dress, with a pinched, cold look on her face, was standing by the embers of the fire.

  18. London, she discovered, was always best when it was shabbiest and one could not praise it more highly than by declaring, with perfect truth, that it was the shabbiest city in the world.

  19. Nancy nodded brightly, and took her leave, and Priscilla, putting on her waterproof and her shabbiest hat, went down into the hall to meet Rosalind.

  20. So Prissie, in her ill-made brown dress, her shabbiest hat, and her muddy boots, had to follow in the wake of Rosalind Merton and her friend.

  21. Lest his sensitive feelings be hurt by finding himself a humble daw among the peacocks of the rich, gay world, she bought seats in the balcony and wore her shabbiest gown.

  22. I detect your perfidy, and I call this about the shabbiest trick one gentleman ever attempted to play upon another.

  23. A few steps up a slippery alley they stopped before a shabby little house, the shabbiest of a row of little houses, each one of which displayed the legend "Washing Done.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shabbiest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.