battered
Example Sentences
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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
Two berths at Holyhead were damaged hours before the height of a rare red weather wind warning that battered Wales last December.
From BBC
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