tatters in English

noun
1
irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material.
There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.

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1. His clothes were in tatters.

2. Everywhere wallpaper hung in tatters.

3. Her reputation was in tatters.

4. Her clothes were in tatters.

5. His clothes hung in tatters.

6. The economy is in tatters.

7. It will end up in tatters.

8. His jersey was left in tatters.

9. The government's education policy lies in tatters.

10. Her clothes were old and in tatters.

11. His body will dry in ropey tatters.

12. Peter was dejected,his confidence in tatters.

13. Banners burnt, and tatters twisted, in every way.

14. I was shocked to see him in tatters.

15. With their plans now in tatters, they gave up.

16. After the war, the country's economy was in tatters.

17. After the newspaper story appeared his reputation was in tatters.

18. But that lay in tatters last night after the latest revelations.

19. In captivity, these complex and multifaceted social relationships are left in tatters.

20. At that point, however, the Mac team was burned out, in tatters.

21. Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters.

22. Rare photographs of Charlie were passed around until they were in tatters.

23. His credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and failures.

24. 15 His credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and failures.

25. He said he was now a broken and sorry man whose life is virtually in tatters.

26. The ceasefire appeared to be in tatters on Monday after heavy fighting erupted in Tetovo.

27. She's failed her exams, and now all her hopes of becoming a doctor are in tatters.

28. She was wearing the rags of her old tunic, hanging in tatters from shoulders and waist.

29. Governments can find their economic strategies in tatters when the markets lose confidence and rush for the exit.

30. The articles of Arthur Ronald Constance, the famed ring columnist, lined the walls in ancient, browned, curling tatters.

31. 27 He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl.

32. He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl.

33. Bush said he is hopeful the Republican party now in tatters will soon resurge, pointing to Republican gains in 1966 after its 1964 trouncing by Lyndon Johnson's Democratic party.

34. When you look at the perception in the media on both sides that the talks, in a sense, have collapsed...the talks are in tatters and that it was unprecedented acrimony.

35. The little plutten got so excited in tatters over to meet other rat that his hormones started to run amok and he tried to cheerfully put on them all - from all angles.

36. Bangui, Central African Republic – For the past eight years, the Central African Republic (CAR) has been the theatre of a brutal civil war that has left its economy in tatters, its institutions

37. Examples of in a sentence Boult takes four, Craig finishes with 10 wickets in the game as Pakistan lose by an innings and 80 runs in Sharjah Cricket: Boult's triple strike leaves Pakistan in tatters

38. The weak fabric of this colour concept was torn into tatters when Sudanese prestigma or Arabization came in contact with the Arabs Proper in the mid 1970s, when they worked as expatriates in the rich petroleum countries of Arabia

39. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn- cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.

40. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing Cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

41. The situation was not helped by the disclosure that Lay, his "reputation in tatters", stood to receive a payment of $60 million as a change-of-control fee subsequent to the Dynegy acquisition, while many Enron employees had seen their retirement accounts, which were based largely on Enron stock, ravaged as the price decreased 90% in a year.