His wornout troops would have to hold the sides of the salient for some weeks while the main body retired.
You will remember that on Sunday, 26th September, the Germans flung their reserves upon our wornout men, and the situation was desperate.
And you let her walk over you, chuck you out as if you was a wornout doormat she'd wiped her boots on, and never said a word.
Thankful's hope of finding a quilt or a wornout blanket, anything which would do to cover her sleeping and shivering relative, grew fainter with the opening of each door.
Yes, he affected me like an etching of himself from a wornout plate.
We severed have been too long; Now let us have done with a wornout tale, The tale of an ancient wrong, And our friendship last long as love doth last, and be stronger than death is strong!
Once the consciousness of Unity is gained, fear drops from the soul like a wornout garment.
Just below us, Madame Prune's panels move very badly, creak and make a hideous noise in their wornout grooves.
In a few days men could go the length of a regiment without being exposed in the least, crawling along the tunnels all dug with bayonets, knives, and a few wornout shovels.
No more usedup areas, no more frantic scrabbling for the few bits of naturally rich ground, no more struggle to get artificial fertilizers to wornout soil in the face of ignorance and poverty.
The wornout cotton and tobacco lands offered hospitable soil while cypress swamps and winter-swollen creeks pumped vitality into the questing runners.
A visit to a lace factory, even to the public rooms where the wornout women were not to be seen, is enough to make one resolve never to purchase any such thing made by hand again.
By this means her old, wornout fields were made to yield greater harvests than our fresh land.
Towards midnight, tired with walking, wornout by grief and fear, he at last fell into a doze in his chair, for he was as afraid of his bed, as one is of a haunted spot.
That voiceless soul had cried to the wornout soul of the sleeper; it had uttered its last farewell, or its reproach, or its curse on the man who had not searched carefully enough.
The wornout ladies composed their spirits, and sank to sleep again.
He says mythology is a wornout dream, and insulting to a Christian age; that it's all well enough to know Jupiter and Bacchus (Silenus too?
I had gone to bed betimes, wornout with hard mental labor: I had hoped for a night's repose to recruit my energies for the morrow.
In the closet of my study hangs a suit of wornout jeans.
A gift she was, born out of emptiness, thrown up on the beach for the wornoutold couple.
There was an old wornout wooden shoe of Soeren's; Maren had painted a face on it and given it an old shawl as a dress.
In this way they would sometimes get pieces of robes, wornout moccasins with holes in them, and bits of meat.
She had encouraged them to bleat and bawl their wornout songs in wornout voices, under the windows of the Hôtel de Paris, until it had been politely intimated to her that the shriekings and tinklings were a nuisance.
Hence the constant immigration from the wornoutto the new plantation, and the cry for new land; and hence the admission, by the most intelligent men of the South, that to prevent the extension of slavery would be to destroy it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wornout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
