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Example sentences for: battered

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Sex sometimes includes a heartening oration, but usually toward the end, urging you on to mutual victory; such remarks are rarely delivered at halftime, when you're lurking in the locker room, glum and battered.
His face looks bruised and battered, and his small, sunken eyes show the marks where glasses were just removed.
Gore to Bill Bradley's battered dinghy.
Segal said raising money to help Legal Aid is critical "to help battered women, people transferring from welfare to jobs in the economy, and the elderly.
Voluntarily sticking to higher standards of ethics will raise societal respect for the industry (currently being battered for greed) and attract a more talented workforce, and may even help the current efforts to reform the tort law.