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Example sentences for: battered

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Burton first raised the subject of his experiences to underscore his support for a bill to aid battered wives.
Regardless, the market did take it on the chin this week, battered by the combination of earnings disappointments from a couple of bellwethers and, above all, by the soaring yield on the 30-year bond.
at Stalag IV B, in Muhleberg, East Germany, part of a battered lot of several hundred American soldiers trapped and finally taken prisoner in the Battle of the Bulge.
Other programs focus on battered women and children, the disabled, day laborers, community improvement groups and crime victims.
The poor woman was like a ping-pong ball being battered back and forth between these two heavyweights [Clinton and Kenneth Starr], and I feel nothing but compassion for her.