You can't be expected to learn on an old man's used-up sling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

The backing from a used-up pad of paper works great for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Household Items Make Packing Easier | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

This is the ripening and removing used-up substance from the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

Feeling like a bag of used-up rags, maybe, but alive and in one piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [orville and wilbur] Reference

MacNeice had been told the empty place once held the used-up antidote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Send used-up idealism to Dan Sweeney at [email protected].    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Sweeney: Why Democrats Couldn't (Read: Wouldn't) Save the Public Option] Reference

And then she had no touch of that blase used-up way of life of which Lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

I will not kill my underlings, no matter how ineffectual or used-up they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 4th, 2005] Reference

So I open the drawer and all there is inside are like dozens of used-up tissues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Spellmans] Reference

Let that small, used-up, no-longer useful identity that he claims is his ... die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: Every Day a Little Death] Reference

It is cheaper than an animal, than a pair of used-up batteries you buy on the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Rights Watch: Iraq: Stop Killings for Homosexual Conduct] Reference

When you remove used-up fuel from a reactor, it's incredibly hot and very radioactive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miniature nuclear reactors might be a safe, efficient source of power] Reference

An old used-up, misspent life like mine in exchange for a young life, like your son's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Chaos]

As there are now many used-up crops that may be cleared away, large quantities of Cabbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

At 52, Mr. Siegel didn't want to become the fantasy-camp equivalent of the used-up Mr. Mays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking Away From a Fantasy] Reference

Gush follows gush, full of delightfulness, replacing the used-up air and purifying the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

The whir of the gears and the furious discharge of the used-up gas seemed increasing momentarily.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Husband by Proxy] Reference

Often the old pains and cramps returned with a vengeance and he felt himself a “used-up man.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

I trod water with my legs, and held Teller up, and went on pushing into him all my used-up breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Sports]

They have a used-up look; their features are meaningless, or rather they have all the same meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

Buren out of office to the tune of "Typ and Ty," "Little Van is a used-up man," and other like vanities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

On Hoskens fully realizing the fact that his victim was no more, he exclaimed "By thunder I am a used-up man!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery] Reference

Four weary and much exhausted girls, and a rather used-up chaperone, were soon enjoying the comforts of the hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley] Reference

Plants, like animals, as the result of tissue change, have certain used-up or waste matters to get out of the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference

It is a sentimental fact that I keep all its used-up brethren in an inclosure together, and throw none of them away.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference

He would see to it personally, he declared, that these things would happen to the man who dared ride his used-up horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference

Gordon went to the little space -- and saw that Izzy was right; there was a nearly used-up lipstick, a comb, and a cracked mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

I ` m trying to get -- because I ` m certainly not getting it from watching him in action, all that fake giggling and those used-up lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009] Reference

Eager little children peeped out from behind the closed windows, beside toothless used-up old people's faces, furrowed as fields in autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference