How to Use in tatters in a Sentence

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• The crew issued a mayday call, as the run-in with the storm left the front of the aircraft in tatters.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• But since the Ukraine invasion, the treaty is in tatters.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Hunger and disease are lurking, and the economy is in tatters.
  — Rahim Faiez and Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2023
• Mike Zimmer had just been fired, and the team was in tatters after two non-playoff seasons.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• For his efforts, Carr was soon kicked out of Hollywood and left with a career in tatters.
  — Nathan Smith, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• But though his legacy now lays in tatters, not everything Trump has done in the Middle East is wrong.
  — Zev Chafets, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• Even more bizarre, her nightgown, a wedding gift from Depp’s detox doctor, was in tatters, with raw meat wrapped inside the pieces.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2022
• Though the pitching staff was in tatters one year after a historic championship run, the Sox passed on adding arms at great cost.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• There are times when our emotions are tattered, and the language that conveys them is also in tatters.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule have been left in tatters.
  — Ingrid Formanek, CNN, 28 June 2023
• Two officers then bend the restrained White over a police car to search him for weapons, his button-down blue shirt in tatters.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2022
• From homelessness to crime, the California dream has been left in tatters for many.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• The economy, Europe's poorest before the war, has been left in tatters.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The manuscript library, which had been kept in several rooms, had been left in tatters.
  — Bora Erden, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• With the country’s economy in tatters, funding for culture and in turn, cinema, was the first to be cut, said Lichy.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 May 2022
• The economy, by most metrics Europe's weakest before the war, has been left in tatters.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Fukushima countryside was no longer a fruit kingdom, and its farmers’ livelihoods were in tatters.
  — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024
• His ambitions were in tatters after failing to enter, let alone cross the Gulf of Alaska.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
• When the couple arrived in 1976, a half-finished renovation had left this room in tatters.
  — Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
• Months of fierce fighting across Sudan has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 17 June 2023
• Today, those traditions may be in tatters, but Kennan’s counsel has lost none of its salience.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• Boris Johnson left Downing Street, his party in tatters.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• However, the 48-hour demise of FTX left his reputation in tatters.
  — Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• The program was in tatters when Drew took over in 2003, in the aftermath of a wide-ranging scandal centering around a player’s murder.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2021
• These moments occurred after the two world wars and the Cold War, when upheavals in great power relations left the global system and the old world of empires in tatters.
  — G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
• Conversations start with bitterness about how the U.S. left Iraq in tatters.
  — John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• That failure left the pretense of a severe but effective Kemalist state in tatters.
  — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
• The fact that team morale was in tatters after Saturday night’s loss only makes matters more difficult.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• With Tigrayan forces on the offensive and ethnic conflicts flaring in other parts of Ethiopia, the very fabric binding his ancient country lies in tatters.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Arizona's offense was in tatters, struggling to move the chains on key situational downs.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024