hard-used

While their armor no longer reflected the burnished magnificence of the early days, it had taken on a hard-used look, more ominous in its own way.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

While their armor no longer reflected the burnished magnificence of the early days, it had taken on a hard-used look, more ominous in its own way.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Standard-issue industrial washers and dryers lined each side of the hard-used, narrow space, and half a dozen tables divided the room.

Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

That should be "shotgun washed" -- perforated -- not cut to fit with a katana although I suppose that also would give them a hard-used look.

Why The British Shoot Shoes 2007

They'd blast the jeans and wash them a bit to give them a fashionably hard-used look ... and sell them for a couple hundred dollars.

Why The British Shoot Shoes 2007

Some of the fortunate ones come into contact with the doctors and social workers at BCH, a hard-used hospital that gives new meaning to the phrase "family medicine."

'Medicine' For '724 Children' 2008

They took charge of the rider's hard-used horse; Rhavas watched them lead the poor beast past the study window toward the stables.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

And around them floated the debris which collects in any old car that's been hard-used: the ashes and pens and paperclips and the world's oldest peanut and a penny from the back seat and pine needles from the floormats and even one of the floormats itself.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

Maytera Mint locked her knees around the hard-used pony, heedless of the way the saddle hiked her wide black skirt past her knees.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Underneath there were six sin. all rocket nozzles, looking black and hard-used, evenly spaced around a long flat propellant tank.

Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993