Sentence examples for kicked about from inspiring English sources

It was terrible, watching poor Hester being kicked about, but in some sadistic way actually rather cheering.

Even men's shoes look kicked about, like Sciapo's faded black washed leather lace-ups (right, $250 at Barneys).

Stockhausen said of Schoenberg, "Here was a composer who made it clear to society that he would not allow himself to be kicked about like Mozart".

And then there are the others: questions which you won't find being kicked about by the pundits on Newsnight Review but which niggle at you all the same.

John Barnes Chelmsford, Essex I could not agree more with Adrian Whittaker's incisive and accurate letter about his son's predicament as a young doctor being kicked about within the NHS.

In 1947, when wartime controls ended and food prices soared, Harry Truman raised margin requirements (the share of the value of a futures contract that a trader must post upfront with an exchange) to 33%, vowing that food prices should not be a "football to be kicked about by gamblers".

what were they kicking about, dirty underwear?

By Theodore Pratt The New Yorker, July 20 , 1929P. 62 Mr. Barr liked to kick about things.

The New Yorker, July 20 , 1929P. 62 Mr. Barr liked to kick about things.

He spent the mid-1990's kicking about, winding up in San Diego in September 1996.

As Mr. Rowsell put it: "We have a whole bunch of waste kicking about.