Sentence examples for battered around from inspiring English sources

The trajectory of events can only be deemed an insult to the authority of the court, whose decisions have been repeatedly beaten up and battered around, their opinions altered, ignored and even abused on the matters of enemy combatants.

In the Eagles 29-16 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday, Vick got battered around again and suffered another injury -- a broken hand.

But the agency they signed up for has been battered around and led by revolving door.

It's a cute little place, a bit battered around the edges, but in a decorative way.

She's been battered around by real life, has never quite fitted in …" Burton drifts off.

The word honor in 2010 -- as Mr. Appiah is aware -- is contested territory, and a bit battered around the edges.

"After battering around from this dwelling to that one, we finally ended up in a government house in Trench Town," recalled his mother, Cedella Booker, in her biography of her son.

A woman falls into a weekend of bad sex - "an aimless battering around the nub of him" - with a damaged, drinking liar.

A WALK AROUND battered, ramshackle Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city and former capital, quickly makes it clear how far the country has fallen behind the rest of Asia over the past half-century.

If she is a doll — Orso amuses himself by thinking — she is a slightly battered one, dragged around by the legs, left out in the rain, undressed with the cruel energy of an excessively loving little mistress.

The IPCC predicts that climate change is likely to cause tropical cyclones to become "more severe with greater wind speeds and more intense precipitation" – a nightmarish scenario for a country already battered by around 20 typhoons a year.