Sentence examples for battered areas from inspiring English sources

The boy who grew up playing football in the battered areas around the port now looks back on his three loves in life: Livorno, politics and football.

There also was a glimmer of a political breakthrough in the storm region in the United States this week, as Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, made a tour of battered areas with Barack Obama, the Democratic president.

Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, which made landfall after Harvey and Irma battered other areas.

It also told of how officers later carried out rescues while fierce winds and a major storm surge battered coastal areas.

Though its worst effects were along the coast, it also battered inland areas like Orlando, where residents and work crews were scrambling to remove or at least fasten piles of debris to the ground before the next hit.

Even as utility companies work to restore power to millions of customers, a northeaster, projected to land midweek, may hit the already battered coastal areas with heavy winds and strong waves that could cause more flooding and tear down power lines recently replaced and stop repair workers in their tracks.

Strong winds battered coastal areas over the weekend as storms continued.

Sandy was blamed for at least 120 deaths and battered coastline areas from North Carolina to Maine.

Striking Taiwan as a powerful typhoon, destructive winds battered coastal areas near where the center moved ashore.

The $51 billion package contains billions for a federal program providing cash grants to disaster victims and roughly $33 billion for long-term reconstruction of battered coastal areas.

Winds up to 125 km/h (78 mph) battered coastal areas of South Korea, uprooting many trees and leaving thousands without power.