Sentence examples for battered television from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, because of the baseball lockout all the action has been on a battered television set in a corner of the stadium souvenir shop.

As is obvious from the small, battered television sets with improvised antennas on which people follow the show, television service in the country is fragile.

This story of greed, betrayal and AK-47's has supplanted the popular Brazilian soap operas on battered televisions and crackling radios in this sweltering port city.

A visual collection of that common urban sight – the battered old television set left out on the street in the hope that someone will come and deal with it.

HOUSTON — Vesta Clemmons, who is 77 and lives alone, relies on the battered Zenith television in her tiny apartment here as more than just a lifeline to the outside world.

Israeli forces staged two major operations in the West Bank today, fatally shooting two Palestinians in Tulkarm and sending scores of soldiers into this battered city, where they closed television stations and demolished a blocklong fruit and vegetable market.

Yesterday, seeing him battered and bleeding on my television screen was like discovering the mortality of a supposedly immortal character in Greek mythology.

That performance led to "The Burning Bed," a 1984 TV movie in which she played a battered wife and which was a television milestone; it helped her secure the lead in the 1985 film version of "Extremities".

A government committee investigated the shelters after a television program accused them of forcing battered women into prostitution.

"We haven't missed a live shot in three hours!" he exclaimed while trying to stand up on the battered beach here in his seventh hour of live television reporting.

It's the ones with all the drama, the warriors and the victims, who end up in the newspapers, the television movies and the country songs: the battered women, the thieves and adventurers, the defiant ones.