Battered Sentence Examples

The woman was hooked to a ventilator and IVs, her battered face clean and pale.

His battered body felt heavy, and his emotions grew chaotic.

But he was battered beyond recognition from the helo crash, Dan said.

Rain and wind battered him.

Like one of those physical forces which tend to reduce everything to a dead level, he battered down alike characters and fortresses; and in his endeavours to abolish faction, he killed that public spirit which, formed in the 16th century, had already produced the Republique of Bodin, de Thous History of his Times, La Boeties Contre Un, the Satire Mnippe, and Sullys Economies royales.

Cadorna had intended to put the battered units of the II.

It was an hour later before they saw their first vehicle, an old Scout, battered and muddy, coming out of a side trail below them.

Chico wears a battered suit and a felt hat.

Straggly gray hair showed beneath a battered gray fedora.

Strummer, however, appears dressed in normal clothes and using his old battered Telecaster.

During an incident on February 8th, Brown allegedly battered his girlfriend Rihanna (a singer and entertainer).

Bruised and battered, they take the ship back to Star Base.

They find Marvin, battered, broken down and barely functioning.

The restaurant's signature appetizer is a large carved onion that is battered, deep fried and served with a spicy dipping sauce.

His chest tightened as he looked upon her battered body.

A teenage student was battered by an unknown assailant on 25th October 1980 in the grounds of Leeds University.

Central battered chimney stack flanked by 2 brick dormer gables with leaded lights.

You also have to put up with loads of grubby, battered fellow festival goers who you've probably had enough of by then.

As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead.

Crack! crash! bang! went his iron-shod hoofs against the wooden bodies of the Gargoyles, and they were battered right and left with such force that they scattered like straws in the wind.

Internal injuries, cuts, burns, bruises, and broken or fractured bones are all possible results of battered child syndrome.

Medical treatment for battered child syndrome will vary according to the type of injury incurred.

Though I battered him about his mistake, I truly loved him I just couldn't let it go.Any way, he moved and so did I.

You were riding your bike the fourth day, battered, bruised and brilliant.

She carried out violent attacks, often leaving them bruised and battered.

Finally, another body came through, this one bloodied and battered.

His gaze moved to her opponent, a woman who looked as poised and rested as Jenn appeared battered.

We saw towering tabular bergs around the ship being battered by the waves.

The flint artifacts found in the ancient river gravels are frequently rolled, battered, and stained brown by iron oxides.

The only relief from his Japanese captors was a battered volume he had found from the Sexton Blake Library.

Fill them up with pasta, battered fresh cod, or a free ice cream on Sundays.

Some of its warehouses have walls on the beach which are battered by gales in the winter months.

The mount is rather battered, being of much thinner stuff than the capping, but appears to carry the same hallmark.

A battered leather suitcase and a smarter, newer holdall stood beside them on the path.

Later we stand together in front of a battered leather suitcase, filled with small luggage labels.

My hands were still gripping the battered wooden lectern on which he had placed the book for my inspection.

Here I was shown into a battered corrugated iron hangar, where I was greeted by a battered, corrugated iron flight lieutenant.

Tables are a lovely pale green Formica which may be more recent than the authentically battered red Leatherette seating.

The cardboard sleeve for the keyboard package is a little battered.

After the gig, we duck outside to the battered tour van which has carried The Paddingtons across the country on their latest tour.

Most people got the chance to explore and penetrate the wreck leaving everybody happy if not battered and bruised.

I ran over and pulled the sac open, and found a bound, battered, incredibly hairy, but alive baby yeti.

Silly pranks like that, or a Crusty screeching up in a battered white van with UN written on the side.

One of the specialities of the house is a dish of delicately battered seafood served in a cone of brown paper.

In the town I was shown a number of articles picked up from the battlefield including a sword hilt and a battered shako plate.

It gets battered more easily because of the softness of the metal.

This will help pre-empt the dehydration that leaves you feeling battered in the morning.

A great number of Chinese dishes are battered and deep-fried, but there are still many lowfat and healthy entrees from which to choose.

People waited with bated breath to hear Rihanna's side of the story as she has remained pretty tight lipped since the incident that left her bruised and battered.

I have grown them in the most unlikely place of all, a battered wall with earth behind, and they flowered very well.

The arrows are raised slightly and there's nothing visually pleasing about them, but they have been battered and ripped and they still keep on ticking.

But holiday work can at least be a financial lifeline for students looking to repair their battered bank accounts.

Once the dust has settled, other orbiters will search for the crater left behind â the latest addition to the battered lunar surface.

The pace did not relent, with boats being battered even on the good lines.

Tramping back to the man 's house they found the battered body of the man 's wife.

Battered child syndrome (BCS) refers to non-accidental injuries sustained by a child as a result of physical abuse, usually inflicted by an adult caregiver.

Battered child syndrome is most often diagnosed by an emergency room physician or pediatrician, or by teachers or social workers.

You'll find foundations dedicated to curing diseases, to music, art, theater, helping sick or abused animals, rescuing battered women, educating children, improving the local community and just about anything else you can think of.

If you can order a grilled chicken sandwich, rather than a battered or breaded sandwich, go for the grilled.

Her body was beginning to ache more, from her battered hands to her bruised cheek from when she'd fallen after fainting the night before.

A man in a robe hurried down the hall as the beast battered itself against the weakening cell.

Then again, in his battered state, the last thing he wanted was to see how angry she still was for his betrayal.

The royal artillery battered down the feudal strongholds.

These cliffs are peculiar in gradually passing from one formation to another, and in having a height dependent on the displacement of the fault rather than on the structures in the fault face; they are already somewhat battered and dissected by erosion.

His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary.

Recognizing the potential for child abuse and the seeking or offering of intervention, counseling, and training in good parenting skills before battered child syndrome occurs is the best way to prevent abuse.

Dean explained to his wife the number of times in his police career he'd seen battered women refuse to follow through when confronted by their abusive mate.

You sound like every cop and judge who doubts every battered and raped woman victim!

The battered crown which had fallen from Richards helmet was set on the victors head by Lord Stanley, the chief of the Yorkist peers who had joined his standard, and his army hailed him by the new title of Henry VII.

She could set her clock by his arrival - eight o'clock every Friday night - in a blue plaid western shirt and battered black cowboy hat.

She didn't doubt the impact of her battered visage on any man, especially A'Ran.

Entering the army as lieutenant of artillery in 1857, he gained the medal for military valour at the battle of Custozza in 1866, and in 1870 commanded the brigade of artillery which battered the breach in the wall of Rome at Porta Pia.

The lofty steeple by which its massive tower was formerly surmounted was battered down by the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War.

Zealously carrying out the conditions of the peace, the peasants not only battered down the detested forts, they even destroyed the chapel at the Harzburg and committed other acts of desecration.