How to Use shopworn in a Sentence

shopworn

adjective

• And a shopworn new wave dance hit floods a dull world with the radiance of a neon rainbow.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• The idea that his shopworn knees disadvantage him on a court with low bounces?
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• And Van Noten’s handling of scarf prints — a seemingly shopworn idea — was deft.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 28 Sep. 2017
• But his legacy is honored every day at the dim, shopworn bar.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• Yet the settings seem shopworn and the whole exercise feels hollow.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• But in all that success the Kia brand has become a bit shopworn, typecast as down-market and generic.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• The concept had become shopworn from use as a marketing tool.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
• Beyond the city it’s set in, the series doesn’t really offer anything fresh to the shopworn legal genre.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
• At a time when American movies are overrun with shopworn visions, its madness is a balm and a beacon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Perhaps with someone like Alan Ball or Ryan Murphy taking the reins, a remake of this shopworn tale might attract a few new customers.
  — Matthew Chernov, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Despite the cheekiness of the staging, Hamida’s path to enlightenment feels a bit shopworn.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
• All this can seem shopworn, and aimlessly mean-spirited.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
• Origins is a film of compromise and calculation, a movie where the elements that aren’t shopworn and arbitrary are egregiously wrong.
  — Nathan Rabin, VanityFair.com, 7 Mar. 2017
• Jackpot Airlines is about a half step above a commuter airline, and its crew members are either shopworn or under-motivated.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• If your listing has become shopworn, look at reducing the price or offering incentives.
  — John Nugent, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2020
• The laughs were mined not just from the married sisters' large and dysfunctional families, on opposite sides of the income divide, but from the lampooning of every shopworn staple of the daytime-soap genre, short of the organ-music sting.
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Establishment Republicans seem to believe Trump’s rise says more about the inadequacies of their voters than about the inadequacies of their own, shopworn politics.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• Your undergraduate writing professor’s most shopworn advice is applicable here: Show, don’t tell.
  — Cleo Levin, Slate Magazine, 24 Oct. 2017
• The novel makes too much use of shopworn archetypes—a seductive housekeeper, a self-sacrificing prostitute—but Altan deftly pushes the tropes of detective fiction into existentialist territory.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024