How to Use battered in a Sentence

battered

adjective
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  • What kind of Easter images can speak to our battered hearts, then?
    — Laurel Mathewson Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Despite being a bit battered and bruised, Hamilton doesn’t believe his team is any worse for wear.
    — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Animated by a vicious killer’s spirit, a battered doll and its mate seek help from neighbors to regain human form.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Our people, diverse and beautiful, will emerge battered and beautiful.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Shrier predicted dire circumstances where men could also claim to be female and be placed in a women's prison or gain access to a battered women's shelter.
    — Trish Turner, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Vaccinations are seen as key to getting people back to work and revitalizing the battered economy.
    — Mark Pratt and Tammy Webber, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Governments along the Mediterranean are pushing for the measure to be in place in time to prevent a second lost summer season for their battered tourism industry.
    — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • By his death in Madrid in 1992, Bacon was a social and artistic icon, his battered face the image of painterly tradition.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • His country's battered economy has decayed further amid pandemic border closures while his summits with Trump failed to lift crippling sanctions.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2021
  • His country’s battered economy has decayed further amid pandemic border closures while his summits with Trump failed to lift crippling sanctions.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But no matter who wins, Ecuador's battered economy will stand in the way of any promises made to the nation of about 17.4 million people where voting is mandatory.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The 49-year-old driver had to be cut from his battered car and was taken to Halifax Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead of head injuries.
    — Mike Harris, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The job is to take the fall, endure the pain, break the bone, then walk away — unsung, battered and bruised.
    — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Kyiv's troops appear to have pushed Russian forces back on the flanks of the battered city in the past week.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • Like a corndog, a dip dog is a battered hot dog fried on a stick.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Glimmers of hope, and strength, can be seen, even in battered McLean’s Town.
    — Matthew Monagan, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Shake off the excess starch and transfer the battered chicken to a clean plate.
    — Clarissa Wei, Saveur, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Fish fry fish comes battered and fried, breaded and fried, and baked.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The battered bus had lost its windshield and appeared to have come apart at some of its seams.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That’s why grown men, battered and weary, hurl themselves in front of speeding pucks and shrug off sticks to the face.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2022
  • The bumps and ridges formed by the embroidery are like a relief map of a battered woman’s soul.
    — Diane Bernard, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2022
  • This leaves Rick as a battered shell, and Carl and Michonne both have a hand in nursing him back to health.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Mass protests rolled across the battered island in numbers not seen for decades.
    — Rena Kraut, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
  • Several miles away, the battered crown of the spruce towered over the landscape.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The battered HSTech index fell a further 1.5% to hit a record low on Friday.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Christian is the kind of guy whose wife ends up in a battered woman’s center.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • The years of stunts mostly took their toll in torn ligaments and battered joints.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • Children’s drawings and Ukrainian flags are on display in every car, offering some comfort to the bruised and battered passengers.
    — Alex Platt, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • All that water mixes with chemicals already on the ground, like pesticides, oils, and fertilizers, as well as debris blown off battered houses, trees, and buildings during the storm.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Oct. 2024

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