How to Use threadbare in a Sentence

threadbare

adjective

• But at 3,400 miles, the carpet was threadbare at the driver’s foot rest.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018
• One is a threadbare pair of Craft tights that has Windstopper panels on the crotch and thighs.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
• Babar’s floppy ears are threadbare, both arms patched up.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 12 June 2018
• The Ravens know the perils of confronting the pass-happy modern NFL with a threadbare secondary.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2019
• If my daughter is along, a threadbare rabbit named Hop Hop.
  — Christine Whitney, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
• After the unexpected gift of Lamb, the second day was about the need to stock a threadbare defense.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2020
• Wilson — who lands the most appearances on this list with four — plays this all with a threadbare layer of charm.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• Yet in a grim commentary on the threadbare state of the Red Sox’ pitching staff, the team managed to do just that for the first time in club history.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• Add new brush or other cover to duck blinds or layout blinds that have grown a bit threadbare over the season.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• My mother read book after book sitting atop a threadbare bath towel on the rocky sand.
  — Lauren Gibbons Paul, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Young rebel soldiers in frayed T-shirts with AK-47s slung over their shoulders stroll through threadbare market stalls.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2017
• Young rebel soldiers in frayed T-shirts with AK-47s slung over their shoulders stroll through threadbare market stalls.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2017
• The Irons' squad is currently threadbare, too, with a litany of injuries and suspensions plaguing the team.
  — SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But even this threadbare dog-and-pony existence is under threat.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
• Before the renovations started in early 2016, many of the outfields were threadbare and the dugouts worn.
  — Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2017
• The fabric of communal, collective life in his movies tends to be threadbare.
  — Max Nelson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• While her knees and parts of her shins could be seen through the holes, there were actually so many shreds all over that even the more covered sections were threadbare.
  — Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2018
• The soldiers wore nothing but threadbare cotton clothes and straw sandals.
  — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
• If the puff pastry is Linus’s threadbare blanket, the rolls are a luxurious down comforter in a suite at the Ritz Carlton.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• The result is that the Bundeswehr—the German military—remains threadbare.
  — Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2023
• Fant will remember more threadbare rosters, and tougher times.
  — Zach Osterman, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2017
• Among the many challenges to reaching and upholding any deal is the threadbare State Department under Trump.
  — Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• The former convicts said the threadbare prison-issue blankets often provided the only source of warmth in the Arctic nights.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a threadbare high-concept story given the high-thread-count treatment — a lovely piece of luxury pulp.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• People reaching for each other on threadbare towels laid across the scorching sand.
  — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2019
• The Warriors came in desperate to win for the fallen Durant and exit their threadbare but cherished home arena of 47 years in triumph.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 13 June 2019
• Has there been a moment in recent American history in which words like these sound more threadbare?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Through moves uptown and downtown, to Manhattan and now, most recently, back to the Midwest again, my threadbare Capezio bag never left the back of my closet.
  — Maura Brannigan, Vogue, 25 July 2023
• Landrieu took to the stage at Gallier Hall and tore down the threadbare justifications for these monuments once and for all.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 May 2017
• Unfortunately, life in the 2020s may have grown too expensive, and the social safety net too threadbare, for many such would-be bohemians.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024