1.   Ropes broke under strain, or were worn through by prolonged use.

2.   In one place the carpeting had worn right through to the floorboards.

3.   As their men humped coarse sacks down this narrow lane, the gritty sugar inside would wear through the hessian and rub raw against their shoulders.

4.   Each course involves still further political damage to Major, his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through.

5.   Another room held heirlooms from local Indian families, including a pair of elaborately beaded moccasins that had been worn through from dancing.

6.   After a month in office, Sharon began stepping out of the congenial, grandfatherly demeanor that he wore through his campaign.

7.   But now they see it wearing through more on students when they arrive on campus.

8.   Cruz responds to this crisis with the same cranky pout she wears through every other scene in the movie.

9.   Driver never really looks comfortable in the beauty queen get-ups, though she wears them through most of the film.

10.   It found that California is making headway in shedding the anti-business label it wore through the early part of this decade.