How to Use beat-up in a Sentence

beat-up

adjective

• The children snuggled tightly in the back seat, braving the cold in a beat-up Honda sedan Mr. Aguilar had found on Facebook for $800.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
• Tired of wearing your old, beat-up sweats outside of the house?
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2023
• The galaxy itself is warped like the brim of a beat-up cowboy hat.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• The backpacks and sneakers could be a little more beat-up when the school bell rings this fall.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• But the beat-up car didn’t affect how Sly felt about its owner.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• Celebrities are often spotted in the same beat-up pairs of Dr. Martens for years.
  — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
• The shoe cleaner can be used on a wide range of shoes such as sneakers and boots, and is great for cleaning dirty and beat-up outsoles.
  — Alyssa Rotunno, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
• Chinos One of the maxims in menswear is that chinos are really just beat-up khakis.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• The conversation is cut short as the group of men hop into the beat-up pickup truck that brought them here to finish out the workday.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
• Zip’s Cafe, Mount Lookout The perfect spot to nestle into a beat-up booth for a burger on a cold winter's day.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
• There were swishy trousers and plush overcoats, neckties mixed up with cowboy hats, a bit of fringe and the occasional beat-up leather.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
• The crew was working to fix potholes—to keep Baltimore’s beat-up roads in good enough shape to keep traffic flowing into the city.
  — Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
• Advertisement Now the question is: How will the beat-up line play at Indianapolis in a short week?
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Those beat-up sneakers hidden in the depths of your dad’s closet may be the unexpected footwear your wardrobe needs this summer.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
• Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• And this asteroid looks relatively old and a little beat-up.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• The sequence concludes with Skyler pursuing Walt outside their home and collapsing to her knees as Walt drove off with Holly in a beat-up pickup truck.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
• Grabbing the years-old, beat-up puffy and foot warmers to go stand around a bonfire and gab with friends requires far less motivation than gearing up for a long day of fat tire biking.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
• But the megs themselves often don’t withstand closeups, looking like beat-up rubber shark toys, or Bruce on the Universal Studios tour.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• The shoe depicted is one half of a pair of Golden Goose sneakers, an Italian designer brand known for its beat-up appearance and outlandish price tag.
  — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• One day, Amos Mills was out on a call so his daughter was minding the store when a beat-up Ranchero—one of those half-car, half-pickup-truck vehicles, loaded down with all sorts of tools in the back—pulled into the metered slot in front of the shop.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
• The portrayals piss me off — the one-dimensional look where a Native person is always the same — drug addict, alcoholic, beat-up woman.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• Something appropriate and comfortable for sleeping and lounging instead of a beat-up concert tee and sweats.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
• Filson's tin-cloth fabric is stiff and requires breaking in, but ages and patinas better than lighter waxed canvas options—this jacket looks more like a beat-up leather jacket after years of use.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• Driving his beat-up pickup truck, down-on-his-luck contractor Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) initially assumes his road rage nemesis is a man.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Aided by 19-inch wheels (the smallest available), that suspension did a reasonable job coping with the beat-up cobblestone streets in the old section of Lisbon, Portugal, where our drive took place.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
• Goldman helped create Wynwood Walls by using beat-up warehouse walls that became home for mural masterpieces.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• Essentially, they were beat-up tennis sneakers with one toe bent out of shape for years after being in storage in jail while the character was incarcerated.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 June 2024
• Just in time for spring cleaning, right now Veja sneakers are majorly discounted at the boutique retailer Gilt and ready to replace your beat-up shoes for an elevated twist on the white sneaker and so many other styles.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
• Joining the typical older, beat-up books are hundreds of newer titles, most of them children’s books depicting minority characters.
  — Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024