beat up

Example Sentences

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By high school it was Dr. Dre, bass rattling the rearview mirror of my beat-up white Monte Carlo—raw, confrontational, impossible to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal

This should provide a badly needed injection of adrenaline to the beat-up small business sector.

From MarketWatch

Regular, beat-up people know all this in the particular, the wealthy and successful only in the abstract.

From The Wall Street Journal

We follow the stone path all the way to a beat-up cabin.

From Literature

Jacksonville has struggled to pressure quarterbacks, especially with Travon Walker at less than full strength and a beat-up secondary.

From Los Angeles Times