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Examples of beat-up in a Sentence
drives the same beat-up truck he had in high school
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Almost every day, every spring and summer, yarns from anguished captains attaching photos of their beat-up rudders fill up a Facebook group called Orca Attack Reports, which has more than 60,000 members.
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Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
There were swishy trousers and plush overcoats, neckties mixed up with cowboy hats, a bit of fringe and the occasional beat-up leather.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
The sequence concludes with Skyler pursuing Walt outside their home and collapsing to her knees as Walt drove off with Holly in a beat-up pickup truck.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
Celebrities are often spotted in the same beat-up pairs of Dr. Martens for years.
—Jasmine Li, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
But, five days after Jennifer Dulos disappeared, Fotis Dulos finally took the old, beat-up Tacoma to the car wash.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
The crew was working to fix potholes—to keep Baltimore’s beat-up roads in good enough shape to keep traffic flowing into the city.
—Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
The first movie is truck drivers in a beat-up truck.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
On the front line just outside Bakhmut, Ukraine, a 32-year-old commander of a Ukrainian artillery platoon rocked to and fro in the passenger seat of a beat-up Lada, as another soldier navigated the car through a thick forest, sometimes mowing down young trees.
—Nicole Tung, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
There were swishy trousers and plush overcoats, neckties mixed up with cowboy hats, a bit of fringe and the occasional beat-up leather.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
The sequence concludes with Skyler pursuing Walt outside their home and collapsing to her knees as Walt drove off with Holly in a beat-up pickup truck.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
Celebrities are often spotted in the same beat-up pairs of Dr. Martens for years.
—Jasmine Li, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
But, five days after Jennifer Dulos disappeared, Fotis Dulos finally took the old, beat-up Tacoma to the car wash.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
The crew was working to fix potholes—to keep Baltimore’s beat-up roads in good enough shape to keep traffic flowing into the city.
—Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
The first movie is truck drivers in a beat-up truck.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
On the front line just outside Bakhmut, Ukraine, a 32-year-old commander of a Ukrainian artillery platoon rocked to and fro in the passenger seat of a beat-up Lada, as another soldier navigated the car through a thick forest, sometimes mowing down young trees.
—Nicole Tung, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
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“Beat-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beat-up. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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