Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tatter? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Perkus Tooth had already been at a watershed, wishing to find an exit from himself, from his life and his friends, his tatter of a career — to shed it all like a snakeskin.
The violence in Jonglei, South Sudan's largest and most populous state, threatens to destabilize the country and tatter the credibility of its fledgling, American-backed government.
The birds' black bills, having pecked through the blubbery skin on the flank of this minuscule whale, were crafting a tatter of deep crimson flesh.
Examples from Classical Literature
She wished to discover what remnant, tatter or shred of her early faith still clung about her.
Whether it was the red flag that floated at the top or the thing itself he sought to tatter is uncertain.
Only here and there toward its lower rim a tatter in it revealed the giant's rugged brown muscle of volcanic rock.
Why may you not have saved that tatter of the old gown twice seven years, then?
Whereupon these serpent-haired she-dogs fasten on her, tatter her, shamefully fustigate her, in their shameful way, almost to fling her into the ponds, had not help intervened.
In the little brass bowl lay a blood-stained fragment of grayish hair attached to a tatter of skin.
But, search as one will, not a crust or a tatter turns up in her history!
Buck's gun went off again, and the other earlobe was a red tatter.
You go round by tatter Brook, says he, an climb the hill from behind.
