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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Banners burnt, and tatters twisted, in every way.
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But that lay in tatters last night after the latest revelations.
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He said he was now a broken and sorry man whose life is virtually in tatters .
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He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl.
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Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters .
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On May 4 that year a demoralised Labour Party lost office, its credibility in tatters .
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The articles of Arthur Ronald Constance, the famed ring columnist, lined the walls in ancient, browned, curling tatters .
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To see a starvIng man eating lobster salad and drinking Rhine wine, barefooted and in tatters , was curious.