Sentence examples for rather beaten from inspiring English sources

The complex's public areas are rather beaten up by time and ski boots, however.

"The one-legged men were pretty well with the bat, but they were rather beaten when it came to fielding.

Fossils of these animals are very rare and most of their remains are only the "skullcaps" of solid bone, but these are rather beaten up.

For those of you who take an interest, the consensus seemed to be that Mandelson had pwned, or rather beaten Marr into submission during the interview (see 40 mins in here).

As the play opens Crystal arrives with a small carry-on bag and a few essentials in her new home: a rather beaten-up-looking, recently foreclosed house that still at least has water and electricity.

The managers weren't buying former Internet highfliers, however, but rather beaten-down semiconductor equipment stocks such as KLA-Tencor and Teradyne.

I'd rather be beaten by a British guy".

"I would rather be beaten by a bad team inspired than by an efficient team," he was quoted as saying.

Many other fine poets can be found in these two recent British anthologies These highly intelligent books wander far away from the now rather heavily beaten tracks of (mainly American) collections.

What a plea!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, and then she added, thinking, perhaps, of both scandals, "I would rather be beaten by my husband once a day than lose my child".

Just as the term once used to describe victims of domestic violence as "battered wives" had a useful (to abusers) double meaning, suggesting someone worn out rather than beaten up, so child-hitters have their own special word: "smack" is designed to dissociate thumping a child from other forms of violence.