tattered

• “He cited the recent example of a Columbia Heights Station escalator that bore what he described as a tattered banner referring to repair dates in 2009.”

  The Washington Post: Depending on escalators

• “And they denounce what they called the tattered shroud of mandatory celibacy.”

  NPR: Letter From Priests' Lovers Reignites Celibacy Debate

• “We could wind up with a country where nothing is manufactured but guns, and we'll be standing around in tattered loincloths, freezing and unshod next to our rusting out-of-gas SUV's clutching our empty black rifles.”

  On Sotomayor and Your Guns

• “It's like when he went to Beijing to cover the Olympics and wrote a column about how the government had cleared away the poor and tattered from the streets (or something along those lines, the memory blurs).”

  A match made in... well, somewhere (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “From the oak tree by the kitchen door, in tattered, weatherbeaten garments, hung the bodies of two men.”

  War

• “They covered me in tattered fabrics, slid a bonnet around my head to shade my face and pulled me through the feathers towards my brother.”

  Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber

• “And, like kids watching magicians in tattered top hats, audiences want to believe those myths.”

  The Huffington Post: Vanessa Richmond: Willow Smith and America's Dirty Little Fame Secret

• “An old black man in tattered overalls stepped out from the band of shade cast by the police van.”

  Excerpt: A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

• “For I have issued the fatwa, and the web of the Spider now hangs in tattered shreds, but before his death he knew this: that his life is fleeting, and we will last forever.”

  The Parable of the Spider

• “Outstretched hands dressed in tattered rags came out from crouching corners.”

  A WALK IN THE CITIES • by Dave Macpherson

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