Sentence examples for battered bridges from inspiring English sources

It is set in that post-nuclear future of smoky wreckage, CGI ruination, battered bridges and buggered buildings prophesied in James Cameron's original 1984 film.

2.00pm GMT 58 min: Terry is battered on the bridge of the conk by Shola Ameobi, as the two contest a high ball.

In other places, railroad bridges were battered.

The combination of being battered by floodwater and foreign bodies resulted in numerous bridges being damaged or destroyed.

Commuters flow out into the shaded road here, between the cars and battered microbuses that crawl around the pilings of the bridge overhead.

Given Lubinda has already leapt off the Victoria Falls bridge in an effort to restore Zambia's battered image.

After a long drive from Houston to New Orleans along Route 90 through southern Louisiana (there were no Interstate bayou bridges back then), my father and I arrived at a campus recently battered by Hurricane Betsy.

As a precaution police closed the 700-year-old bridge over the River Fowey in Lostwithiel as it had been battered for several hours by flood water and there were fears it might give way under the strain.

It paints a picture of a crippled nation with its roads, bridges and railroads shattered, its electricity grid badly damaged and its oil industry battered and paralyzed.

For 12 hours, guerrillas battered Israel's front line in the south with machine-gun and mortar fire at the Qasmiyeh Bridge over the Litani River, the northern boundary of Israel's now shrinking zone of occupation.

Was Sylvia Plath a battered wife?