How To Use washed-up In A Sentence
- You will think: "I suck[Sentence dictionary], I'm such a failure. I'm washed-up.
- It's a very slippery slope between ‘productive veteran’ and ‘washed-up geezer.’
- Luke Wilson, as Richie, the washed-up tennis champion in love with his sister, offers some of the most moving scenes in the film, and manages it all while sporting sunglasses and a sweatband.
- You walk in to the deafening metronome uncha-uncha-uncha robotic caterwaul, the music almost binary in nature 101101-ing to a crowd of Latino gangbangers, septuagenarians, slumming rich kids and washed-up high school jocks with backwards hats who were just looking for something to date rape. Someplace Else
- One of his seminal articles in this period was published in a book in honor of Mises — that supposedly washed-up old man who just so happened to have a penchant for speaking truth to power.
- Some Marvel staffers, in terms they now regret or deny, denounced his work as the ravings of a washed-up, senile old man.
- Experts were still trying last night to work out what the mystery 30ft washed-up remains are. The Sun
- By buying it, we would somehow be in on the joke - and not only that, but we would be granting a formerly washed-up pop star an escape route from the dumper.
- There's some superb name-calling (in one clip Franken is called "a yappy, washed-up shitzu," with such vitriol that I cracked up at length) and great footage of Ann Coulter and Franken facing off in some sort pundit panel smackdown. Michelle Orange: God Spoke and He's Feeling Chatty: The Al Franken Documentary
- Rourke is sensational as the washed-up former celebrity wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, but for me it's Aronofsky's handheld takes that steal the show: following Randy about his routines, achingly, effortlessly evoking the time that hangs on every choice and missed opportunity, all of it rather bittersweetly framed in the film's anti-romantic view of northwestern America. Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
