1.   A young man in threadbare clothes, rifling through garbage cans, looked up.

2.   He pinched his ribs under threadbare clothes.

3.   Our tour guide was one of their descendants, a stocky fellow with a shock of black hair and threadbare clothes that smelled of campfire smoke.

4.   Shah Bacha, a proud man wearing the threadbare clothes of a day laborer, is among the poorest.

5.   Children in threadbare clothes, and sometimes none at all, sit and stare in hunger or pain from illness.

6.   Hermits, with scraggly beards and threadbare clothes, came out of the hills to join the throng.

7.   Today in the courtyard, tired women in threadbare clothes bake unleavened bread on wood-burning stoves, and scampering barefoot children swat at flies.

8.   Arriving in Gorazde the convoy was quickly surrounded by children in threadbare clothes and scuffed and worn shoes asking for sweets.