Sentence examples for both battered from inspiring English sources

At 16:00, both battered Spanish vessels surrendered, although as the British ships launched boats to take possession of their prizes, the crew of Santa Elena hacked through the anchor cables and allowed their ship to drift onto the rocky shoreline where they disembarked and escaped inland.

The docent took us to the shed behind the kitchen and showed us the two doors, one faded turquoise, both battered with age, that inspired Wyeth's 1968 watercolor "Alvaro and Christina," now owned by the Farnsworth and part of the exhibition.

In Spain and Portugal - both battered by the eurozone crisis - there are no Eurosceptic parties.

But the United States and its allies need to find better ways to persuade China to change policies that are both battering the global economy and damaging its own development.

Dawson had both knees battered and lost a lot of skin off both arms — plus a couple of productive years off the end of his career — because of the abrasive and unforgiving AstroTurf field at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, where he played his first 11 big league seasons.

Both emerged battered from the ordeal.

Both candidates battered Trump repeatedly and well, according to the conventional political rules of debates.

This time the challenge is coming from both the battered and splintered opposition and from within.

Senators from both parties battered the bureau with criticism and hostile questions.

UNTIL that terrible evening in May two years ago, Ekaete Udoh was both a battered wife and a good mother.

With both sides battered and exhausted, Republicans joined Democrats in seizing the so-called sequester as the means to end the impasse.