Sentence examples for battered town from inspiring English sources
Mr. Chandler, his boots and pants heavy with mud, a battered town Stetson jammed down on his head, held a rope that was clipped to the stallion's halter.
Rebel troops have regained a shaky control of Ajdabiya, the battered town 60 miles south of Benghazi, which is the furthest opposition outpost on the road to the capital.
Some are coming from the battered town of Ras al-Ayn in the main Kurdish canton of al-Jazeera and, from the west, forces are advancing from Kobani, which withstood a four-and-a-half-month Isis siege.
QINGLIAN, China — It is a simple strand of red plastic hanging between two trees, but for residents of this battered town, it is the line between life and potential death.
WASHINGTON — There had been two television medical reporters, a Chicago neurologist, an Atlanta epidemiologist and a New York academic on President Obama's list, but on Monday he instead chose a family doctor from a battered town on Alabama's Gulf Coast to be the next surgeon general.
On a day when his Middle East envoy visited the battered town of Jenin and called the scene horrific, Secretary General Kofi Annan renewed an urgent call for the Security Council to send a "robust" multinational peacekeeping force to the region and "halt the tragic and terrifying descent into bloodletting".
Gusts of more than 150km/h (93mph) battered towns across the country, as police and the army helped motorists trapped by snow drifts.
Though unable to take Irun, they battered the town badly and gained ground around it in a six-hour battle costing heavy loss on both sides.
After an almost-two year break from cinema while he was attending to fatherhood, McConaughey came storming back out of the gate in 2011 with The Lincoln Lawyer - or at least out of the back of a chauffeured, battered Lincoln Town Car, his unorthodox criminal defence lawyer's "office".
After new year storms battered the town causing severe damage, students were told not to return to the seafront accommodation until Monday.
Folklore is suppressed, farms are collectivised and famine batters town and country.
