beat-up

How To Use beat-up In A Sentence

• There'd been an old drifter who'd stopped by for lodgings with his ragged hat and scarf, everything he owned in a beat-up pack.
• If the whole Jesus thang is a beat-up, well, what can it hurt? Just to say --
• Match the critter with a weather-worn leather belt, beat-up Carhartt workmen pants and a chambray shirt. Shoot From the Hip
• She had large eyes, but mostly, it seemed, for his beat-up shoes.
• He fought in the trenches when he had to, beat-up the brawlers, out-thought the boxers, could beat anyone at their own game, but mostly dictated the action, even when he was backing up.
• Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell.
• “It’s gotta be jarring to see somebody dressed up in a billowy linen shirt, drop-front hemp britches, and a wide woven sash, with a big tuque on his head, driving an old, beat-up Buick Century,” he said. One Big Table
• Myriads of old cars, beat-up buses and superannuated trucks asphyxiate urban areas with their deadly exhaust, while the dirty two-stroke engines that power small vehicles emit ten times as much fine particulate matter as modern cars.
• Kenneth would send him and he'd come like a beat-up, punch-drunk fighter; useless and straight into the trap. THE LAST RAVEN
• He drives a beat-up old van.