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 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
  • Chinos One of the maxims in menswear is that chinos are really just beat-up khakis.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The shoe depicted is one half of a pair of Golden Goose sneakers, an Italian designer brand known for its beat-up appearance and outlandish price tag.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • One day, Amos Mills was out on a call so his daughter was minding the store when a beat-up Ranchero—one of those half-car, half-pickup-truck vehicles, loaded down with all sorts of tools in the back—pulled into the metered slot in front of the shop.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
  • Something appropriate and comfortable for sleeping and lounging instead of a beat-up concert tee and sweats.
    — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
  • Filson's tin-cloth fabric is stiff and requires breaking in, but ages and patinas better than lighter waxed canvas options—this jacket looks more like a beat-up leather jacket after years of use.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Driving his beat-up pickup truck, down-on-his-luck contractor Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) initially assumes his road rage nemesis is a man.
    — Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Aided by 19-inch wheels (the smallest available), that suspension did a reasonable job coping with the beat-up cobblestone streets in the old section of Lisbon, Portugal, where our drive took place.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Goldman helped create Wynwood Walls by using beat-up warehouse walls that became home for mural masterpieces.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Just in time for spring cleaning, right now Veja sneakers are majorly discounted at the boutique retailer Gilt and ready to replace your beat-up shoes for an elevated twist on the white sneaker and so many other styles.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Joining the typical older, beat-up books are hundreds of newer titles, most of them children’s books depicting minority characters.
    — Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023

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