Mr. Shyamalan remains our leading cinematic rug-puller, but the carpet grows ever more threadbare.

Robb wants me safe, I cannot fault him for that, but his pretext is growing threadbare.

The green rug that covered the floor had grown threadbare, but it would do.

The major's smile was as deep and apparently sincere as the one with which she'd first greeted Kaeritha, but the mask had grown increasingly threadbare.

CBS, meanwhile, has a once-vaunted news operation, here and abroad, growing threadbare after years of budget cuts.

Plan as they would, the days passed and hope grew threadbare.

That explanation has grown increasingly threadbare.

Very quickly the leopard-skin seat covers disappeared, the carpet grew threadbare and the room turned brown and tarnished, retaining an atmosphere of faded glory.

But the chapel had grown dingy and threadbare after so many decades of hard use.

That's the beauty of Denim; they will never grow old or threadbare or fade.