A small piece of cloth or paper.
1Smoke hung in layers, too heavy for even the wind to tatter.
2The doll felt the shreds of his courage tatter to whispers.
3It was a dirty-faced boy-a tatter-demalionof fourteen years-withsharp, knowing black eyes.
4His clothes were in tatters; he hadn't changed them since the fight.
5Their clothes were bubbling in the hot spring in rags and tatters.
6Both houses have to reach agreement or leave the deal in tatters.
7He is 26, a young man in despair, his future in tatters.
8The economic fallout from Brexit has left many pension funds in tatters.
9The gnawed and tattered holes in the bag told their own story.
10The entire Red Tory mission for the working north was in tatters.
11The tattered remnants of the Spanish Arch barely do its history justice.
12Kidnappings, bombings and cold-blooded executions left the Tupamaros' romantic reputation in tatters.
13She parades her duty before me in the most tattered of rags.
14His jeans were in tatters, in no better shape than his sneakers.
15I declined the offer as the tattered one better fit my image.
16The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.