A somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Peter Marlowe's dog-eared paperback caught her eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

He pushed a rather dog-eared card across the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civvies]

Leave your dog and your dog-eared lovers at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dig That Girl!] Reference

No magazine pages dog-eared to cruise advertisements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four To Score]

The rest was books, not one of them dusty or dog-eared.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Then he walked across a dog-eared bridge onto the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

Five minutes later he was asleep, a dog-eared paperback of The.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beach House]

A corner of one page had been dog-eared, then flattened again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Forever]

Jake picked up two ragged and dog-eared volumes from his table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Badge of Infamy] Reference

  Three others are stacked on the night table, pages dog-eared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference

Not the particular dog-eared directory lying next to your phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

She searched in her purse and pulled out the dog-eared leather book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firestorm]

They bring dog-eared copies of his book, "Leadership," for him to sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy Country?] Reference

There were three dog-eared 3x5 matte shots, the only ones his mother had.    From Wordnik.com.  [What we Know] Reference

The violinist dog-eared a page and slipped the book into his violin case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stalin's Ghost]

"I own every one of your books -- too many and too dog-eared to bring today.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elinor Lipman provides a guide to author anxieties.] Reference

The book looked well thumbed, and a great number of its pages were dog-eared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Dread]

Annie stretched to reach a specific book, and then flipped to a dog-eared page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]

But there you are: cassette in one hand, a dog-eared delivery menu in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft's Sidewalk] Reference

I'd been cyphering away until Second Thessalonians was dog-eared, without reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]

And I see Governor Engler, that is a dog-eared copy of the vice president's book.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush and Gore Prepare for Debate Rematch - October 11, 2000] Reference

Tacked here and there on the walls are dog-eared posters:  AA = Attitude Adjustment.    From Wordnik.com.  [And We Sell Apples 1977] Reference

While he was in the computer room, someone had left a dog-eared paperback on his desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Demonkeeping]

It was an old dog-eared copy, looked as if it had been leafed through a thousand times.    From Wordnik.com.  [2nd Chance]

SEABROOK: Out of his pocket, Dodd pulled a well-worn dog-eared copy of the constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawmakers Pay Respects To Sen. Robert Byrd] Reference

He opened the booklet carefully and spread out a dog-eared and yellowing map on his lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

You dog-eared knock-kneed bleary-eyed paint, if you don't swing wide I'll skin you alive!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference

She fished out a dog-eared bundle of paper stapled together and quickly flicked through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

They were already lining up the chess pieces and reading from the dog-eared instruction book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

One, ankles crossed on the back of an empty metal chair, read a dog-eared copy of Praetorian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firestorm]

"Rob Roy" and "Old Mortality," and the well-thumbed and dog-eared copy of Robert Burns 'Poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I bought dog-eared pickets and I just put them all in here and they stayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2005] Reference

He set the stack of memos aside and began to read through the dog-eared, heavily-worn manuscript.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peer Review] Reference

Just as old things are dog-eared, worn, and tattered, so are old institutions, habits, and ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Jill nodded, pushing my father's dog-eared personnel file along with a deposition across my desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [2nd Chance]

At night I'll read the ones that are worn from your hands, the dog-eared ones full of pencil marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Armed only with a dog-eared NEWSWEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equality, of a Sort] Reference

With six titles coming out this year (including the third in a young-adult series), he found time to share his own most dog-eared books.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life In Books: James Patterson] Reference