Sentence examples for battered shape from inspiring English sources

Down the road, overseen by Kelly's Brazilian wife, Jacyara, and their two dogs, Survival is in roughly the same battered shape as its 60-year-old captain.

As they bash the wet material with methodical resolve — carving and battering shapes out of the clay like deranged gardeners — they transform their stage into a lunar map of finely etched lines and valleys.

When oil is hot enough to fry a bit of batter, shape a beignet into a ball by using 2 large serving spoons.

Occupational hazards include "ice-cream headache" from the frigid waters, waves battered out of shape by gales, and long drives to get to the most reliable spots.

When Skanderbeg returned to his men, his "shield was so battered that its shape was scarce to be discerned".

On 12 October, Royal Oak returned to the defences of Scapa Flow in poor shape, battered by North Atlantic storms: many of her Carley floats had been smashed and several of the smaller-calibre guns rendered inoperable through flooding.

It's a picturesque campground, with spacious tent and RV sites dotted among palms and moss-laded oaks, battered into strange shapes by the ocean winds and providing vital shade.

Within it are strewed a dislodged bathtub, an air-conditioner casing battered into a helix shape, a mailbox coated with ashes.

It starts (I reckon) as a real cake and then gets dumped on its head, and we see the result in its slumping shape and battered sides, with the unlikely addition of lurid pineapples slices straight out of a can.

The democracy movement here has also been shaped, and battered, by recent experience.

Mr. Fábrega and I shared a sea bass hot dog — fine, flaky fish rolled into a sausage shape and lightly battered and fried — which was far more delicious than it sounds.