They're often tired in the morning and late to lessons and breakfast, and constantly stitching up their tattered shoes.

The family walked to the Congolese border with nothing but their clothes and tattered shoes.

"That was me," she said, pointing to an underdressed woman with tattered shoes rummaging through a garbage can.

Uncle Henry wiped his wet feet on the rag rug and groaned as he drew on his tattered shoes.

Not a tattered shoe.

They crossed the bridge wearing tattered shoes if any at all.

He was discovered one morning between the sheets with his tattered shoes on his feet, an old torn hat on his head, and a stick in his hand.

Clutter had overtaken the conference table: fashion sketches, a haphazard spill of apples, a single tattered running shoe.

He looked down at his feet in their tattered athletic shoes.

They hobble to the food distribution site in tattered shoes, pushing rusty wheelbarrows over a stretch of land that is so dry there is little grass in the soil.