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Sentence count:209+11Posted:2017-06-09Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: tatteredscatteredshatteredsplatteredbatterybatteriesutteredflattererMeaning: ['bætəd]  adj. 1. damaged by blows or hard usage 2. damaged especially by hard usage 3. exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury. 
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91) Battered and beleaguered, Arsenal had been put firmly in their place.
92) There were the battered lockers, the comfortable chairs and sofas that lacked some of their stuffing.
93) Clutching his new bear, he left the hospital for the Garth House, a Beaumont facility for battered and abused children.
94) Treatment was geared to boosting John's immune system which was being battered by various systemic fungi and intestinal parasites.
95) The ancient grey flannels and shirt, the battered panama, the lined face ... there was nothing feminine there at all.
96) But she was being battered by so many conflicting emotions that her brain felt numb.
97) Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues?
98) It had no effect whatsoever, except to leave her feeling battered and thoroughly bad-tempered.
99) Whatever the outcome the long-standing, unwritten code of behaviour that governs relations between ministers and civil servants would be gravely battered.
100) And then, just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein, Jon Snow gave away the secret.
101) At last, Corbett found the narrow alleyway and pushed his horse through the crowd to the battered ale-stake above the dingy house.
102) The surfaces of these planets were very hot and continually battered by meteorites,[http://sentencedict.com/battered.html] which prevented much cooling taking place.
103) The battered Premier was today desperately trying to reassert his authority after Mr Lamont's devastating attack.
104) She was nearly home and some one jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood.
105) He led me into his parlor, a clutter of mildewed books, yellowed newspapers and battered filing cabinets.
106) Battered and bruised as usual, a sizable portion of their offense decimated by injury.
107) They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
108) The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
109) Fifty thousand dancing girls lying cheek to jowl in a battered straw suitcase.
110) Oil stocks were looking battered following a slide in the price of crude.
111) Advisers said Arroyo will focus initially on reinvigorating the economy, battered by the political crisis.
112) The lid had been battered out of shape and the locks no longer met, but a leather strap held the whole thing together.
113) So many confusing facts battered his brain he didn't know how to start sorting them out.
114) Each year, perhaps 4 million women are battered by their husbands.
115) Miles found himself in the water, tangled in coils of rope, battered by sealskin floats.
116) His shock decision - on the eve of Labour's party conference - threw a lifeline to battered Premier John Major.
117) Lewis's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered, punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing.
118) He decided his first task was to try to raise the battered morale of his troops.
119) And sexually abused and physically battered kids run away from home.
120) And the £170,000 military breakdown gear made light work of pulling the battered truck out of the waters.
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