My clothing became so shabby that I was ashamed to go to school.
The wards where she was treated were dirty and shabby, and the food "like a dollop of shit".
I was floored by a fairly shabby-looking old wooden casket, displayed without ostentation; according to the label, it contained the remains of Henry V.
She had spent the time mending Chun Bao's tattered clothes. Although it was late spring and summer was near, she took out the boy's shabby cotton-padded winter jacket and wanted to give it to her husband, but he was fast asleep.
What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show?
Real Programmers are concerned with the aesthetics of their craft; they will writhe in pain at shabby workmanship in a piece of code.
Our opinion of our own looks is also capricious: We can feel like the belle of the ball at one party, but downright shabby at the next, all on the same night.
Then I decided to visit the shabby local bar and get drunk on rum.
But young Adolf Hitler was rejected. What we see in the prologue of “Mein Kampf”, a disturbing feature film directed by Urs Odermatt, is an utterly desperate and skinny young man in shabby clothes.
What if my trousers are shabby and worn; they cover a warm heart.
Two points stand out: Steve was lead inventor on just over 10% of the 313 cited patents on which he is named — a significant minority, but not too shabby!
We are staying at the Charlie Rockets Hostel, which is smoky and shabby - just how I had imagined.
They walked into a windowless room with shabby carpets fluorescent lights and three rows of metal folding chairs.
I remember the shabby little clapboard house we all grew up in. But it had an enviable nice little plot with a kitchen garden bordered by lilac bushes.
A conscript in a shabby uniform saluted the car.
The shabby houses used to range along the road.
