How to Use battered in a Sentence

battered

adjective

• 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
• Three days later, his battered body was found on the bank of the Hatchie River.
  — Willie James Inman, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Farmer Randy Matthews approached and looked over the battered feed chopper and a rusty baler next to it.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Her battered body was found at 3:35 a.m. the next day, under a pile of dead foliage.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 14 June 2019
• 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
• In a few minutes more a battered and bloody crew of men and dogs stood on the ridge above Albemarle.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Dark mounds loom around us as the battered truck pushes past concrete huts.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
• There’s the battered car, the vague possibility of a job in Alaska, the road there, and her dog Lucy.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• Green Bay will need a healthier Love against a Rams team that’s battered but feisty.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
• What kind of Easter images can speak to our battered hearts, then?
  — Laurel Mathewson Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• One photograph, from the Myeongdong shopping district, is nearly all wall, a plane of battered brick and concrete.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
• Seurat argued that the group, despite its battered state, may opt to pursue further military pressure to attain its goals.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025