battered
Example Sentences
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I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like to have around, or at least would feel guilty about throwing away.
It has been the singular lifeline for a battered Iran and its entire proxy network.
She wears battered white leather sandals; at the top of the frame, we see the very bottoms of a slip and a skirt.
The immigrant community, he said, had been battered like never before in recent months.
From Los Angeles Times
“We were pretty bruised and battered at that point,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
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