How to Use "tattered" with Example Sentences

1. Letchford pressed his wounds to stem the bleeding , using tattered garbage bags as surgical gloves .
2. Now , to a large extent the poor quality of mr. mccain 's advisers reflects the tattered intellectual state of his party .
3. I 'd trade a hundred of these daiquiris for a moment in my tattered armchair , back at our old apartment , and marlene coming in with a tumbler of that cheap stuff .
4. Later , after others had copied his words , translated them into english and french , and read them aloud for radio and tv , he clutched the tattered cardboard to his chest and vowed to give it to the national museum .
5. Your diarist is a guest at a conference on security organised by ukraine 's rather tattered hawks .