Sentence examples for as battered from inspiring English sources

At a stroke, Europe's green credentials will look as battered as an old banger.

The wheelchair, at just three years old, was almost as battered as a trash truck.

It showed us bleeding knuckles with snow falling, bodies as battered as those in Dutch pietà paintings.

The Giants are as battered as any N.F.L. team, and several deadlines loom for sorting themselves out.

Amuda has suffered losses during the war, though it is nothing like as battered as towns like Ras al-Ayn or the 80 per cent destruction at Kobani.

FASHION retailers, as battered as they've been over the last couple of years, have been pretty upbeat about the fall collections.

During a market meltdown good companies often get as badly battered as bad ones.

'Do they attack as battering rams or as gun carriers, or both?

The Romans were also masters of siegecraft who used such devices as battering rams, catapults, and ballistae (giant crossbows) to take enemy fortifications.

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Protesters filled the vacuum by burning bins, indulging in some graffiti and charging through gates using wheelie bins as battering rams.