Akshay Kumar

Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.

Indian Actor

Natasha Lyonne

Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

American Actress

Emilie Autumn

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

American Musician

Rufus Wainwright

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.

Canadian Musician

Pierce Brosnan

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

Irish Actor

Eli Broad

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

American Businessman

William Butler Yeats

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Irish Poet

Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

American Writer

Merle Shain

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Canadian Author

Describes objects that are physically worn out and visibly damaged.

Physical Appearance

Implies a lack of care or abandonment; often elicits a sense of poverty or desolation.

Negative Connotation

Casual; more appropriate for storytelling or descriptive texts, not formal or technical writing.

Not for Formal Use

Refers to non-physical things like emotions or mental states, used metaphorically.

Figurative Use

Highlights psychological damage or stress; carries an emotional weight.

Emotional State

Can be used to show resilience; something is damaged but still present or functioning.

Positive Recovery

 the partition which was a photo of a mosque in his home village that he carried around with him and in that photo that he gave to us there was this is you know tattered black and white foot of a mosque iqbal remembered helping to build the mosque by handing bricks to the workers

The Triumph and Tragedy...

 is throwing dirt on that wound again and it's quite bad you can actually see there's a little looks like an acacia stick that's got actually stuck in some of the tattered flesh there so as I said it's quite fresh and at the moment he might not be a problem but if infection

Safari Live - Day 125 PIPE...

 I think it is also listening to the herd of elephants behind us I don't think this I you know would want to run into any trouble but a very tattered ear which is another indication that it is fairly low ranking like I said I think it's a male just from looking at it I

Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...

 story of my hats to see Indian is really not them my fault that I have a hat that looks like this I have ordered another one by the way is another hat is on its way to help me you say do I have a pair of tattered shorts and shirt to go with my hat

Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...

 and as species become extinct, so I like to think of it as tearing holes in this beautiful tapestry of life. And as more and more species become extinct, so this tapestry becomes more and more tattered and a whole ecosystem can collapse.

Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...

 over a span of three months. And it is incredibly important to astronomers because it ultimately carries the chemical legacy of the star that exploded. The orange filaments that you see there are the tattered remains of the star,

Your body was forged in...

 grief and memory and anger. She takes a deep breath and walks toward the monster. She stands before it. A thin, dark girl in a tattered, green sari. Her hair is whipped loose from its braid,

A Sci-Fi Story of...

 is this cacophony of men coughing, and stone being broken with primitive tools. Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band,

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 The library is vast and magnificent -- but decrepit. And it was this tattered complexity in the rock record that obscured its meaning until relatively recently.

Hunting for dinosaurs...

 The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress.

Tattered