The sauna facilities are clean, if somewhat threadbare.

Miller's own home often looks somewhat threadbare, because she is forever dispatching her antiques and artwork to spruce up the houses for sale.

His attire is somewhat threadbare and shabby.

He watched impassively as she ran her narrowed, suspicious gaze over his somewhat threadbare traveling cassock.

Somewhat threadbare, but at this price who's complaining?

A tall, heavyset woman wrapped in gaudy if somewhat threadbare robes crashed to a halt in front of them.

(Although earlier census data on the community are somewhat threadbare, most observers here say the big decline in seasonal homes took place before 1990.)

In 1732 Marivaux was working within long-established and somewhat threadbare conventions of the commedia dell'arte tradition.

"It is of ancient make, and thereby in the undiscriminating eye perhaps somewhat threadbare; but to the desert-traveller all wells are sparkling," replied Lin.

You've got to admit our credibility is somewhat threadbare at the moment.