How To Use Beat-up In A Sentence
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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.
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If the whole Jesus thang is a beat-up, well, what can it hurt?
Just to say --
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Match the critter with a weather-worn leather belt, beat-up Carhartt workmen pants and a chambray shirt.
Shoot From the Hip
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She had large eyes, but mostly, it seemed, for his beat-up shoes.
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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.
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Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell.
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“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
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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.
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Kenneth would send him and he'd come like a beat-up, punch-drunk fighter; useless and straight into the trap.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He drives a beat-up old van.
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Here's a HOWTO for converting a pinball machine's light-up playfield into an electrified coffee-table; the recipe calls for a beat-up playfield from a nonfunctional pinball machine, which is cool, since it avoids the guilt associated with decommissioning a glorious old pinball machine.
Boing Boing
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He's wearing torn khaki shorts and beat-up tennies, without socks.
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The desert town of Perfection, Nevada - all tumbleweed and beat-up trucks - gets attacked by giant earthworms.
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We were both quiet as I drove him to his beat-up Chevy parked by the stables.
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The piano that we had inspected and paid for in the city was delivered by three young Arabs in a beat-up van.
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His total assets then represented a beat-up van and a few boxes of cheap trainers, which he sold to small, independent sports shops in towns across the north of England.
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Late in the afternoon, thunder growling , that same old green pickup rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat-up Resistol tilted back.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Stallion-stitched leather buckle For the Wild Man A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll circa '70s Eagles, this stallion-stitched leather buckle grooves well with a similar colored belt, worn-in low-slung corduroys, a dandy printed button-down and beat-up espadrilles.
Shoot From the Hip
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Squat, matte black and prominently featuring a beat-up pair of oversized wolf ears, Arcand and none of the other Cubs would merit factory-fresh armor until they passed this, the last of their exams.
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Dad arrives, tractor chain in hand, and I drive attached to his beat-up blue Chevrolet with dents from pulp-wooding, the truck that my cousin and I drive to downtown Magee.
Why Should I Stand for Jesus
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Rather, I've come to the diplomatic conclusion that intentionally beat-up production simply complements bands who are bent on re-examining time-worn musical ideas.
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"The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
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I'm glad you got an old beat-up car instead of a gross Cadillac or something.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Our beat-up Citroën is a welcome distraction for the traffic-stalled touristsin the lanes beside us; they have hours to go before reaching the sea, the color of whichmimicsthe hue of dusty blue coating our car evidence of organic farming here at the vinery, where our family car doubles as a tractor-delivery vehicle... door dents and all.
French Word-A-Day:
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We see the evolution of characters from young, bright-eyed regulars to beat-up-looking old men.
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Our front door gets squeaky now and again (door rubbing on beat-up aluminum doorsill) and I just rub the paraffin block on the doorsill and that fixes it immediately. shibathedog
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My mother prepared chopped liver using a shallow wooden bowl and a beat-up, double-handled, single-bladed mezzaluna knife that her mother had given her.
One For The Table: Mushroom and Garlic Turkey Liver Pâté
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Uemployed, without any money or children and driving a beat-up old car, he has the word "loser" written all over him.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number
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The beat-up old car speeds through, the driver not caring for the innocent children as he narrowly misses them all.
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The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me.
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A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
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Kenneth would send him and he'd come like a beat-up, punch-drunk fighter; useless and straight into the trap.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Rather, I've come to the diplomatic conclusion that intentionally beat-up production simply complements bands who are bent on re-examining time-worn musical ideas.
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He sat in the chair, his elbows resting on the beat-up table, embarrassed at what his answer had to be.
FALLOUT
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I passed a couple of colorful beatniks playing on a warm wooden kettledrum and a beat-up guitar.
Steven Denlinger: Bartering My Future
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Cinderella will return the dirty appearance formerly, wearing beat-up clothes. Oh , it is too bad.
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Our beat-up Citroën is a welcome distraction for the traffic-stalled touristsin the lanes beside us; they have hours to go before reaching the sea, the color of whichmimicsthe hue of dusty blue coating our car (evidence of organic farming here at the vinery, where our family car doubles as a tractor-delivery vehicle ... door dents and all).
Decalage horaire - French Word-A-Day
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The desert town of Perfection, Nevada - all tumbleweed and beat-up trucks - gets attacked by giant earthworms.
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He noticed conveyor belts with shrink-wrapping machines and off on the other side of the beat-up warehouse, transparent pneumatic doors leading into a pristine clean room with racks of video-duplicating equipment.
State of the Union
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Her lithe body did little to dispel this image, even dressed as she was in a tight halter top over a blue thermal shirt, cut-off daisy dukes over black tights and beat-up Doc Martins.