beat-up

How To Use beat-up In A Sentence

• A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas.
• "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.
• I'm glad you got an old beat-up car instead of a gross Cadillac or something. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
• 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:
• We see the evolution of characters from young, bright-eyed regulars to beat-up-looking old men.
• 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 Use A Candle To Keep Doors And Windows From Sticking | Lifehacker Australia
• 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
• 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
• The beat-up old car speeds through, the driver not caring for the innocent children as he narrowly misses them all.
• The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me.