dog-eared

How To Use dog-eared In A Sentence

• Many of them opened bistros or little restaurants with big ideas and some dog-eared paperbacks.
• It had something to do with sex—complete with pictures—and the dog-eared corners attested to its being quickly stashed under mattresses in numerous adolescent occupied homes.
• I found no joy in cleaning up some little tyrant's mess and I didn't have enough emotion in me to cry over a silly dog-eared card.
• The unstylish interior has remained unaltered and the laminated menus, populated by over a hundred items, are creased and dog-eared from passing through thousands of hungry hands.
• It was torn along the bottom, and dog-eared at the corners.
• Professor Brightly walked into the lecture hall with a pile of dog-eared notes under his arm.
• Beside the bed was a stack of worn books, dog-eared and creased.
• I would ask you, Messer Cicero and Messer Seneca, whose dog-eared volumes I see scattered upon the floor, of what use is it for me to know better than any master of the Mint or a Jew of the Pont-aux-Change that a gold crown piece is worth thirty-five unzain at twenty-five sous eight deniers parisis each, if I have not a single miserable black liard to risk upon the double-six? IV. Fate. Book VII
• Her school books would be worth nothing, or at least close to nothing at a pawn shop - too many ripped and dog-eared corners.
• She replaced the receiver and tapped her fingers on the dog-eared directory as she waited for it to ring.