How to Use battered in a Sentence

battered

adjective

• Jamie happily handed the battered Grey over to them, despite the rebels’ clear intention to do him harm.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Dec. 2024
• That led to a major sigh of relief for the battered area, where overwhelmed and undermanned firefighters have been battling the blazes nonstop.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
• Tindall was sitting in his battered Ford Model T when the Allens arrived at their meeting place.
  — Tim Gallagher, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
• With the battered economy expected to make not just real estate cheaper, but construction costs as well, those bonds and loans will likely go further than before.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2020
• The country began reopening three months ago, lifting lockdown measures in an attempt to rebuild its battered economy — yet the threat of a second wave remains.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
• Hundreds of cafés, bars and restaurants in its capital have been forced to close, pointing to a troubling new chapter for Argentina's battered economy.
  — Tara John, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• The battered leisure and hospitality sector, which suffered massive jobs losses in the past, gained nearly 1 million jobs in June.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 1 July 2020
• Zimmer jets to the economically battered, fictional town of Deerlaken to beg Hastings to run for mayor.
  — Jacob Lambert, TheWeek, 26 June 2020
• After imposing a strict nationwide curfew in mid-March to limit the spread of the virus, his government took steps to begin reopening the battered economy a week ago.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2020
• Thinley, known to everyone in the village by his last name, wore a battered down jacket, a baseball cap, and the unruffled calm of a man who has weathered 42 Himalayan winters.
  — Peter Gwin, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Obama told those in Flint that Biden is the man who can heal the wounds of a battered, tired nation.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Mother and daughter live in a small room with a bed, a sink, and a battered chest of drawers.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
• It’s a battered and grimy object, probably in need of some Purell, and I’ll be thrilled to be rid of it.
  — Chris Colin, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Mass protests rolled across the battered island in numbers not seen for decades.
  — Rena Kraut, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• The incident left her bloody and bruised, and photos of her battered face were leaked to the public.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot.
  — CBS News, 27 May 2024

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