Sentence examples for a bettered from inspiring English sources

People of the Force, tired from the exploitive travels on behalf of the Luminosity, returned to empty promises of a bettered life and a caring for the loss of their families.

The rig buckled, tilted and seemed to wait kneeling like a bettered knight.

Worcestershire equalled the five Division Two wins by Northants and third-placed Essex this summer, a total bettered only by champions Lancashire.

"He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how".

Before anyone else had seen the dramatic potential in the low-budget stopover, Hitchcock's Psycho (1961) combined what would prove to be the signature elements of sex and violence in a never-bettered formula, throwing in a Oedipal, necrophiliac twist to give audiences the partially-decomposed mother of all motel movies.

Those users open the Taobao app six to seven times a day for a total of 30 minutes, a rate only bettered by China's top instant-messaging app WeChat, according to HSBC analyst Chi Tsang.

They take place in an unreconstructed adolescent dream world where men are toughened warriors and women are an eye-candy bettered only by an exploding public transport vehicle.

It was a tally only bettered by players in four top teams, and is twice as many as any Australian – male or female – has ever scored at a single World Cup.

Though hardly on a par with the Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin's designs for the tilted, open-worked spiral tower of his "Monument to the Third International" (1920), "Light Prop" exudes a similar optimism for a world not only bettered by technical know-how but set on a whole new footing.

A refreshing pint cannot be bettered, nor can a well-mixed vodka tonic.

The astonishing endurance of Forsyth's career was in some ways surprising, because the parts of his portfolio – singing, dancing, joking, acting and hosting – were all bettered by many individual practitioners of those disciplines.