How to Use beat-up in a Sentence

beat-up

adjective
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  • Tired of wearing your old, beat-up sweats outside of the house?
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The galaxy itself is warped like the brim of a beat-up cowboy hat.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The chilly weather calls for cozy clothes, but my beat-up sweats are far from cute these days.
    — Clara McMahon, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The backpacks and sneakers could be a little more beat-up when the school bell rings this fall.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • But the beat-up car didn’t affect how Sly felt about its owner.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • Celebrities are often spotted in the same beat-up pairs of Dr. Martens for years.
    — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The shoe cleaner can be used on a wide range of shoes such as sneakers and boots, and is great for cleaning dirty and beat-up outsoles.
    — Alyssa Rotunno, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The video splices clips of Becky, dressed in Willy Chavarria, while a stampede of men circles her at the junkyard and a crane claws through beat-up cars around her.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2024
  • The children snuggled tightly in the back seat, braving the cold in a beat-up Honda sedan Mr. Aguilar had found on Facebook for $800.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Chinos One of the maxims in menswear is that chinos are really just beat-up khakis.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • If your boss has been lugging around the same beat-up backpack or book bag for years, upgrade him or her to this luxe leather bag from Dr Martens.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • We're meant to root for Jo and Bill's ragtag group of storm chasers — in their eclectic clothing and caravan of beat-up cars and an RV.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 20 July 2024
  • The conversation is cut short as the group of men hop into the beat-up pickup truck that brought them here to finish out the workday.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This isn’t some janky jumble that Rose has hauled cross-country in her beat-up car, then spit shined for performance.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Zip’s Cafe, Mount Lookout The perfect spot to nestle into a beat-up booth for a burger on a cold winter's day.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 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
  • Perhaps the most convincing reason to retire a beat-up pair?
    — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 21 Dec. 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
  • Trying to make a couple bucks off his beat-up two-wheeler, Solomon was surprisingly turned away from the shop.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 July 2024
  • Advertisement Now the question is: How will the beat-up line play at Indianapolis in a short week?
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Those beat-up sneakers hidden in the depths of your dad’s closet may be the unexpected footwear your wardrobe needs this summer.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
  • Easy to dress up with skirts and trousers, or down with a beat-up pair of jeans, this versatile essential has a place in everyone’s closet.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And this asteroid looks relatively old and a little beat-up.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • One of the Eds had brought his own chair, but the rest made do with what was there—an old trolley bench covered with back issues of auto magazines, along with assorted beat-up chairs and stools.
    — Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Grabbing the years-old, beat-up puffy and foot warmers to go stand around a bonfire and gab with friends requires far less motivation than gearing up for a long day of fat tire biking.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Best Nordstrom Anniversary Sale travel deals Your beat-up luggage can only last so long.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 15 July 2024
  • The light is still red as a seemingly chirpy, clueless couple pulls alongside her in a beat-up minivan, seeking directions.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But the megs themselves often don’t withstand closeups, looking like beat-up rubber shark toys, or Bruce on the Universal Studios tour.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023

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