On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Tattered. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as tatterdemalion or worn and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Tattered meaning
- Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.
- Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.
- Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
Synonyms of Tattered
Using Tattered
- The main meaning on this page is: Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. | Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged. | Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.
- Useful related words include: tatterdemalion, worn, shattered, destroyed.
- In the example corpus, tattered often appears in combinations such as: and tattered, the tattered, in tattered.
Context around Tattered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tattered
- In this selection, "tattered" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, higher, recession, cover, tent and white stand out and add context to how "tattered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a tattered joke book and around a tattered paperback and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tattered" sits close to words such as abm, adsl and adua, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tattered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I have only ever seen one tattered-winged monarch in my yard in Banning. (14 words)
I enjoyed my time in the Scouts and still have my tattered uniform in the closet. (16 words)
We have nowhere to go!” murmurs a middle-aged man with scraggy beard and tattered black clothes. (17 words)
He’s seven decades old, loved on by a little girl in upstate New York so intently that patches of its golden mohair are worn away, its tattered felt nose held on by pins and, well, there are those replacement eyes. (41 words)
Because of funding and staffing limitations, the center can only stay open until 5:30pm, so Sanders, a 59-year-old who uses a wheelchair, has spent the sweltering nights with his pet in a tattered tent behind the building. (40 words)
Brave locals from a New Jersey neighborhood sat on the steps of a brownstone house, engaged in casual conversation, seemingly undisturbed by the ghost in tattered white clothes gazing at them from behind. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Because of funding and staffing limitations, the center can only stay open until 5:30pm, so Sanders, a 59-year-old who uses a wheelchair, has spent the sweltering nights with his pet in a tattered tent behind the building.
Brave locals from a New Jersey neighborhood sat on the steps of a brownstone house, engaged in casual conversation, seemingly undisturbed by the ghost in tattered white clothes gazing at them from behind.
By the final verse, the suitcase of songs is ‘tattered and torn and falling apart’, a poignant metaphor for Alan’s mind.
I have only ever seen one tattered-winged monarch in my yard in Banning.
In fact, he believed his reputation and decades in the game were just what the Astros needed to help repair their tattered reputation.
In the show and the game, Ellie's go-to reading material is and a tattered joke book titled No Pun Intended: Volume Too by Will Livingston.
Seymour’s attorneys argued that the higher Tattered Cover standard should apply in this case and that the reverse keyword search warrant fails to meet the standard and should be ruled invalid.
The city will cash in and the buyer will determine the fate of the tattered historic building with stunning views of the water.
We have nowhere to go!” murmurs a middle-aged man with scraggy beard and tattered black clothes.
Back in more innocent times, most people would only cart around a tattered paperback and their wallet on holiday.
But as he staggered through its gates, dressed in his dusty and tattered military uniform, he may have wondered if he was in the right place.
Fall armyworm initially creates pinholes in the leaves when it is small but as it grows it hides within the heart of the plant and damages emerging leaves leaving them tattered.
Here were people suffering major losses, their lives stopped in a hellscape of tattered roofs, ruined possessions and, in some cases, a pile of debris where their home once stood.
Patrons sit in the children’s section at the Tattered Cover Book Store’s East Colfax Avenue location in Denver on June 28, 2024.
VanCoughnett and the other medical workers climbed into the ambulance, drove for a minute and parked in front of a tattered gray house that stands on a crab-grass hill.
We must repair the safety net that is now torn and tattered as the needs of so many of our families and communities, and their demand for services, increases.
And from Reel Art Press come pictures of the recession-tattered Manhattan of the 1970s and ’80s by the vigilant street photographer David Godlis.
Denver social psychologist, professor, futurist, radio personality and author Kelly Neff comes to the Tattered Cover LoDo to Sex Positive: Redefining Our Attitudes to Love and Sex.
He’s seven decades old, loved on by a little girl in upstate New York so intently that patches of its golden mohair are worn away, its tattered felt nose held on by pins and, well, there are those replacement eyes.
I enjoyed my time in the Scouts and still have my tattered uniform in the closet.
Common combinations with tattered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and tattered 9×
- the tattered 9×
- in tattered 6×
- tattered cover 5×
- tattered and 3×
- tattered clothes 3×
- tattered black 2×
- tattered military 2×
- of tattered 2×
- his tattered 2×