motheaten造句

• Nearly 2, 000 years ago James penned these prophetic words : " Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
• I was 15 at the time, and to be with the Lou Richards and Colliers ( the Colliers had finished playing, but they were always at the Club ) Phonse Kyne and those great players, Fothergill, I could hardly believe it, and I was in some pretty shabby old gear because the war had just finished and things were pretty tough in Nyah West, so yes, Lou Richards and the boys have let me know over the years about that silly-looking green and white guernsey that I was wearing, with motheaten holes in it.
• While Edward Ward in 1947 considered the Mansions to be " one of the most modern luxury blocks of flats ", Harrison Forman, noticing the changes in the Mansions since its halcyon days before the war, reflected on his return, " Now it looked rundown and motheaten . " American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Keyes Beech described the Broadway Mansions as " a steel and concrete apartment hotel that shot eighteen stories up from the bank of Soochow Creek, an American pillar of plenty ", but indicated that " the best thing about the Broadway Mansions was the view ".