It was poorly but neatly furnished with a cheap-looking, red- upholstered sofa and chairs, and a threadbare patch of carpeting.

The worst of the surface filth had been brushed off and the padding stuck out in threadbare patches.

She went to bed late after a sketchy supper and was up betimes, arranging flowers, polishing once more, turning the shabby rugs to hide the threadbare patches.

I concentrated on a slightly more threadbare patch of carpet where I have kneeled thousands of times before.

Painted dressers are distinguished with age and use, Oriental rugs have pleasing glimpses of threadbare patches.

When he felt steady enough again, he rested his palms on the threadbare patches of fabric and pushed himself up, slowly, to standing position.

Go off in your shining starship, and have adventures undreamed of, and shunt my people aside into this threadbare patch of this uncivilized world.

Its casters stuck in a threadbare patch of carpet and he had to fight back the impulse to use brute strength.

The threadbare patches seemed to vanish from the carpets and the worn stains from the upholstery.

A threadbare patch of Brussels carpet swarmed with roses and lilies, amid a desert of colorless drugget.