wear and tear

You also want to inspect the blanket for any wear and tear or visible damage.

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

At home Liszt doesn't wear his long abb's coat, but a short one, in which he looks much more artistic.

To travelers blessed with golden sunshine, the Rhine may wear a grander, nobler aspect, and to such I leave it.