How to Use "threadbare" with Example Sentences

1. Meanwhile , an already threadbare safety net keeps thinning .

2. Threadbare sales had prompted some onlookers to question whether all the exhibitors would still be around come autumn .

3. In their threadbare logic and refusal to acknowledge moral complexity , these views are almost interchangeable .

4. Our affection for him needs no threadbare explanation .

5. And many see the current un conference as the last chance to shore up an increasingly threadbare nuclear non-proliferation treaty .