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单词 weather-worn
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Definition of weather-worn in English:

weather-worn

adjective
  • Eroded or altered by exposure to the weather.

    a weather-worn gravestone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is 70 years old and has the leathery, weather-worn face and hands of a farmer.
    • He stared at the other man, studying him, then looked around the weather-worn little valley.
    • There are still banners, now frayed and weather-worn, hanging from overpasses.
    • But now many of the weather-worn black and white signposts are threatened by neglect and decay.
    • Either side of the clock stood a weather-worn statue of an angel, with outstretched wings and lifeless stone eyes looking out over their domain.
    • Her long, slender fingers gripped a pair of posts with apprehension, though her weather-worn, freckled face held no sign of tension.
    • Well, it wasn't a bad spot: a weather-worn gully just below the crest, a nick in the hillside where a couple of trees had come down in a slip, plenty of deadwood.
    • Notre Dame Cathedral will always be my favorite place, even if the gargoyles are weather-worn and protected by a metal barrier.
    • Her face was weather-worn and darkened by sun, but beautifully shaped.
    • The clusters of buildings became older and more weather-worn the closer we got to Osaka.
    • Already he could clearly discern the treetops round about him; but it was in vain that his eye sought the view of the old brown church tower and the weather-worn roofs.
    • I saw one ad which showed a very weather-worn, wrinkled man wearing a hood.
    • They are now very weather-worn, but it is still just possible to see that the running figure is a skeleton, and the pursuer is winged.
    • Although praised for its meticulous reconstruction, in the interests of historical accuracy the hall's exterior was painted creamy yellow even though it jars with the rest of the weather-worn castle.
    • A weather-worn face, as craggy as the surrounding hills, grins out from beneath a grizzled beard.
    • The gray-colored walls of the apartments were weather-worn with cracked paint and the low roof obviously needed new shingles.
 
 
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