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Example sentences for: battered

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Funds to help battered women with divorce, child custody cases
Begun in 1368, it was the main royal lodging for centuries until it was battered and left a wreck during the “Lang Siege” of 1571–73.
The dangling figure turned out to be "the burned, battered and nearly lifeless body" of Shepard, "who had been tied to the fence 18 hours earlier."
Like someone who hears a pun and then searches for a story to use it as a punch line, over the years I have collected mangled metaphors, battered idioms, and twisted expressions, always looking for explanations behind the novel usage.
The competitive advantage the world's largest retailer enjoys over its rivals in a robust economy would be even greater during hard times, when those puny competitors would be battered by economic gales, which to the mighty chain are but gentle zephyrs, Flickinger breezily implied.