Sentence examples for slightly battered from inspiring English sources
Your slightly battered desk diary is in the mail.
They are slightly battered but you can tell every one has a story.
Americans have a word for such cherished if slightly battered objects – "pre-loved".
On one occasion, I was driving on campus behind a slightly battered Rover.
Hence a slightly battered upright piano in place of the expected concert grand.
Granville's own slightly battered town bike is on show (the museum explains that she has been lent another).
Other slightly battered-looking instruments are to be found strewn around.
Sitting on the terrace of the pretty, slightly battered-looking Bistrot des Quinconces at 7pm on a lovely summer's evening, a glass of wine was not so much called for as demanded – especially as I'd managed to avoid the bar on the train.
The books that I like to read the most at Christmas are the ones from my childhood that I pick up when I'm back at my parents, battered and usually slightly crumply from being read in the bath: When Marnie Was There, Back Home, The Swish of the Curtain, and so on.
Teff flour is used extensively in Ethiopia to make injera, a soft flatbread prepared from slightly fermented batter, and the grains are also used in stews and porridges.
Because the range from buttermilk to yogurt is thin to thick (and yogurts vary in thickness), each of these liquids produces a slightly different batter.
