Sentence examples for battered- from inspiring English sources
Gazans are materially cut off from the world economy, just as in Cuba: everything patched up and odd flashes of modernity amid an economy trapped in the 1970s – the occasional new car alongside battered Volvos and even more battered donkeys.
On an overcast day at the end of October, I clambered into Murphy's battered Mitsubishi pickup for a tour of the Forest of Bowland where Hope and Sky had vanished.
The Pumas may have lost eight games in a row now but they are not exactly pussycats and there were some bruised and battered Welsh bodies here on Saturday night.
Its executives meet in Berlin next weekend before the Champions League final and were in militant mood after Blatter triumphed over his younger rival, who had promised to repair Fifa's battered reputation and serve for only one four-year term.
And many of the residents who moved from battered postwar inner cities loved their bright new houses and streets.
Appropriate for a Victorian grand tourist perhaps, but I shook my head, pointing to the battered rucksack instead.
Al-Qaida has moved to reassert its battered authority, appointing as its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian militant mastermind who has vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden with a September 11-style mass attack.
"Iran's judiciary should reverse its execution order of a battered child bride".
In battered brown folders, sheaves of letters urge Edward Heath's government to take action against Pinochet – letters from an elderly couple in Leicester, "an appalled family" from London, from academics, students, Labour party branches and the "Bath Women's Liberation Front".
While it is still too early to call time on the Ebola outbreak, a sense that the worst may have passed is tentatively taking root in west Africa, alongside an acute realisation of the need to ensure a positive long-term legacy for battered healthcare systems.
Think of it as a Portuguese Whitstable, only with vast sandy beaches instead of small pebbly ones, sun-bleached seafood shacks instead of wind-battered ice cream vans, pink flamingos instead of seagulls and Brazilian models instead of… OK, so it's nothing like Whitstable.
