How to Use battered in a Sentence

battered

adjective

• Wendy came to sing and strum her battered guitar.
  — Allegra Goodman, Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
• Like a corndog, a dip dog is a battered hot dog fried on a stick.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• Fish fry fish comes battered and fried, breaded and fried, and baked.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
• The woman suffered two black eyes and a bruised and battered face.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
• Benjamin gave me a smooth pink stone out of a drawer in his battered desk.
  — C. Mallon, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
• Mass protests rolled across the battered island in numbers not seen for decades.
  — Rena Kraut, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• The battered bus had lost its windshield and appeared to have come apart at some of its seams.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2021
• Think of it as more of a battered but beautiful old dive bar than a burger joint.
  — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2025
• The men murdered the girl and tossed her battered body in a nearby forest.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Christian is the kind of guy whose wife ends up in a battered woman’s center.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• Sunday was a day for the front to pin its ears back against a battered offensive line.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• The years of stunts mostly took their toll in torn ligaments and battered joints.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Images from the scene show a white car with a battered front and a shattered windshield.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 4 May 2026
• The jobs market already seems quite battered, at least in terms of new hirings.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
• Mother and daughter live in a small room with a bed, a sink, and a battered chest of drawers.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
• The job is to take the fall, endure the pain, break the bone, then walk away — unsung, battered and bruised.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• That’s why grown men, battered and weary, hurl themselves in front of speeding pucks and shrug off sticks to the face.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2022
• But at least the battered people of the Middle East have a breather.
  — Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
• The bumps and ridges formed by the embroidery are like a relief map of a battered woman’s soul.
  — Diane Bernard, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2022
• Kyiv's troops appear to have pushed Russian forces back on the flanks of the battered city in the past week.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
• The incident left her bloody and bruised, and photos of her battered face were leaked to the public.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
• On Monday—the moon’s day—we were introduced to a brown, battered world.
  — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
• In a few minutes more a battered and bloody crew of men and dogs stood on the ridge above Albemarle.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• Venezuela needs more than money to revive its battered oil industry.
  — Peter Millard, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
• Obama told those in Flint that Biden is the man who can heal the wounds of a battered, tired nation.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
• Cherish's battered body was found in a Jacksonville creek, still adorned in the orange dress with a fruit print.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2018
• One of the teachers, a college student, spent the night in an emergency room with a battered nose.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Some rooms held battered bed frames or operating tables.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
• The boat’s prow grated on the shore and Larry hauled it up among the rushes beside a battered skiff.
  — Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
• Hokazono took a quick photo of the whiteboard, then packed his battered notebook into his bag and got ready to leave.
  — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025