How to Use tatty in a Sentence

tatty

adjective

• The donor car for this process was quite tatty when it was located.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 7 Nov. 2022
• This is no time for Democrats to be small, tatty and cheap, to do the old class warfare, to issue one-liners instead of thoughts.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• All the walls were painted the same dull white, and there were only a few tatty posters for decoration.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Sitting alone in the dock wearing a tatty orange jump suit, James Ricketson turns around to give the press in the courtroom a wearied shrug.
  — Eli Meixler / Phnom Penh, Time, 15 June 2018
• Reiko Huffman’s scenic design re-creates well the tatty motel where King spent his last night.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• The company turned its tatty icons like Mickey Mouse into cash cows.
  — Ben Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• The final page of the book shows him being pursued by Bambolona, the baker’s friendly but plain-faced daughter, who hands him a tatty bunch of flowers.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• Mayor Eddie DeLoach says — and its historic downtown, which once evinced a tatty charm, has been burnished to a high gloss.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
• Slumped in his Beijing hospital bed in tatty ward-issue pajamas, the 69-year-old is a warren of aches and scuffs, and sports a whopping frostbite sore on each of his two cheeks.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 14 June 2018
• Now all that remains of his patrimony is enough hefty wood and tatty brocade to churn the stomachs of every Design Within Reach customer in the first three rows.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• Like many of the city’s saloons, Marie’s Crisis, the tatty but venerable West Village piano bar, was closed during the pandemic.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
• Her only access to fashion as a child was through tatty German mail-order catalogs.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• Cases are heard in tatty courtrooms with computer systems that often fail.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• In the center of the room, a ceremonial semi-circle has been set up with a makeshift ring of tatty television monitors playing a selection of Palestine’s video performances from the past 40 years.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Its tatty toilets and broken moving walkways betray its council-run heritage.
  — Tom Rowley, 1843, 6 Mar. 2020
• But those concerns often conveniently overlooked the tatty crud regularly published in the country’s reactionary right-wing tabloids, many of which are owned by Murdoch, which have had a profoundly deleterious effect on British society for decades.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
• Science educators were not interested in running a playground that, after 40-plus years, had become physically tatty and obsolete in its predigital presentation.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024