dog-eared Betydning & definition

Eksempler på dog-eared

• My review copy is already looking rather dog-eared!

• In a few months we shall regard the price lists as tatty and dog-eared mementoes of a former age which we do not quite understand.

• One woman who had been there for 47 years had two very dog-eared birthday cards.

• We have, and we notice the dog-eared books that they are bringing home, the lack of books and the shared books.

• I saw dog-eared plans and projects in old ledgers or in books which hardly held together.

• It is not that it is dog-eared because it has been pored over too much: it has been pored over too little.

• Would it not mean new books for the well-off and dog-eared copies for the poorer people in the community?

• The schools depend upon parent-teacher associations to raise vital money, the equipment is defective and the texbooks dog-eared.