How to Use battered in a Sentence

battered

adjective
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  • 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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • Brand heard a doorbell ring and opened the door to find a smiling man carrying a battered Ikea bag.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Arnold’s, Downtown The wood screen door, the battered bar and the timeless atmosphere make this one of my favorites.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • One of the teachers, a college student, spent the night in an emergency room with a battered nose.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • His tent, along with three others, are pitched beneath the shadow of their battered shrimp boat.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • As for the battered décor, the Raoul brothers ejected the Chianti bottles on the tables, but kept the rest: the bar, the booths, the tin ceilings and walls, and the fish tank at the back.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But Kyle Whittingham somehow coaxed eight wins out of the battered group.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There were over a hundred hostages freed and some relief aid made it to the battered people of Gaza during the brief cease-fire in fighting.
    — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • In recent weeks, fighting along the battered front line in southern Ukraine has been brutal.
    — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Putin continues to use Belarus to train and supply his battered forces in Ukraine.
    — Michael Levenson, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In a video shot by an NBC News crew on the ground, piles of waste and battered buildings line the street before several aid trucks arrive.
    — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Eddie doesn’t want to work with Hillary and bets that the sight of his battered face will disgust her right out of boxing management.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For decades now, it’s been a fixture of the Iditarod, the beginning of the end for battered, weary, red-eyed mushers.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The fish is two generous servings of battered and fried mild-tasting Alaskan white fish.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
  • French toast becomes Italian Toast ($18) when a sweet, battered batard is stuffed with Nutella.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • A little tramp in a battered bowler hat picks it up and starts waving it, trying to catch the driver’s attention.
    — Jeremy McCarter, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The menu is pressed into a battered letter board above the prep table, and by the looks of it, the only characters that have changed on that board are the ones denoting prices.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Later that night, his wife burst into tears and cried on the floor upon seeing his bruised, battered and bloodied body.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • In the months since Musk bought the platform, Twitter has proved somehow irreplaceable—even in its battered state.
    — WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • Even in a battered city like Mykolaiv, about 45 miles northwest of Kherson, grocery stores are fully stocked with fresh fruit and meat.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Financial tech companies were among the most battered stocks in 2022.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The battered Ocean Beach pier will remain closed to the public until early next year as the city braces for another stormy winter.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In a battered city on Ukraine’s southern coast, salt water runs from the taps and electricity is sporadic.
    — Andrew E. Kramer Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • As the Golden Globes turn the page on an existential crisis, a battered Hollywood is eager to welcome the awards back to the fold.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Trading in the battered stock was halted several times.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 May 2023

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