SHABBY in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for SHABBY, such as:

1. He was satisfied by the shabby chairs.
2. You look rather shabby in those clothes.
3. The old house has grown shabby with age.
4. Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
5. Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHABBY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shabby
 a.  torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  In other days, Scarlett would have been bitter about her shabby dresses and patched shoes but now she did not care, for the one person who mattered was not there to see her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  She picked up Ellen's Paisley shawl to wrap about her but the colors of the faded old square clashed with the moss-green dress and made her appear a little shabby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  He followed her glance about the room, with its worn furniture and shabby walls.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6  If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
10  That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
11  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  She rushed into the room pouring out: "I'm afraid you'll think the teachers have been shabby in not coming near you, but we wanted to give you a chance to get settled."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  He was satisfied by the shabby chairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  There was only Miles Bjornstam, in his black wedding-suit, walking quite alone, head down, behind the shabby hearse that bore the bodies of his wife and baby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Now she lay across the bed, in crumpled lavender cotton and shabby pumps, very feminine, utterly cowed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence:
1  The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic.
2  A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St.Petersburg.
3  Two other men, grizzled and vaguely shabby, walked in surly conversation.
4  Embarrassed by his parents' shabby, working-class appearance, Doug felt their visit to his school would bring him nothing but chagrin.
5  The old house has grown shabby with age.
6  You look rather shabby in those clothes.