The detritus was the usual: ratty couches, empty paint cans, old mattresses.

Arrayed behind him on four rows of ratty couches and metal chairs were a dozen or so computer animators and engineers.

He leads the couple back toward the living quarters, where a bed, a ratty couch, a toilet and a tub stand in unwalled nakedness.

After a group of younger girls finished a tour, they marveled at the ratty couches and ever-present food.

She sat on their ratty couch, crying.

The interrogation was taking place in the lieutenant's old office with the Russian colonel behind the desk and Mike and Pierson on a ratty couch.

A ratty couch against one wall, two ancient chairs in front of an old oak desk that had once belonged to a successful mob lawyer.

Across from him the ratty blue couch that' Elias prized began to warp away from plumb; its lines changed.

I had done little more than two unscripted essays from the ratty couch of my $480 apartment in Minneapolis.

"All we had was a ratty old couch."