Sentence examples for beaten about from inspiring English sources

Thanks to the dispute over what Japan calls its Northern Territories, Russia and Japan have never signed a peace treaty ending the second world war.Now, for the second time in two months, Japan to its dismay is getting beaten about by neighbours over lumps of territory.

It looks flat, badly weathered, beaten about.

Augusta Kate could finish only seventh behind Ballyandy, beaten about five lengths.

Ahmed was beaten about the head and his face was slashed.

He was only beaten about 11 lengths but he never travelled and he came back coughing.

While in custody, he was severely beaten about the head and nearly blinded.

For Roth, growing up in New Jersey in the forties was never about getting beaten up, about pogroms or tortured shopkeepers.

"This is not a natural occurrence," Dr. Goodyear said, showing the beaten-about chert cobble afterward.

It's called the "The Woodpecker Menace" and it's a series of short vignettes about his life off the beaten path, about an hour southeast of Seattle.

By the beginning of last November, Novells stock had been beaten down to about $8 a share, less than a quarter of its peak value in March 1993.

"And I get beaten up about the fact that I love life, from time to time.