How to Use shopworn in a Sentence

shopworn

adjective
  • But his legacy is honored every day at the dim, shopworn bar.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The idea that his shopworn knees disadvantage him on a court with low bounces?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2018
  • 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 Broncos look slow, sloppy, shopworn and stale.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The concept had become shopworn from use as a marketing tool.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
  • Yet the settings seem shopworn and the whole exercise feels hollow.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 June 2019
  • And Van Noten’s handling of scarf prints — a seemingly shopworn idea — was deft.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 28 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If your listing has become shopworn, look at reducing the price or offering incentives.
    — John Nugent, Houston Chronicle, 4 July 2020
  • Despite the cheekiness of the staging, Hamida’s path to enlightenment feels a bit shopworn.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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