How to Use beat-up in a Sentence

beat-up

adjective
  • Not far from the treehouse was a beat-up old Land Rover.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • 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 galaxy itself is warped like the brim of a beat-up cowboy hat.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 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 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
  • His first car was an old, beat-up 1956 Ford Victoria and the color of the car was pink.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Trading in your beat-up mattress for something new is one of the best ways to start sleeping through the night.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The 275-square-foot studio had beat-up wooden floors and small windows, and what passed for a fireplace was a hole in the wall.
    — Michael Mundy, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are clashes and there is closure, but mostly there’s just Vera, bustling around in that ratty coat and beat-up car, to solve the case, save the day and aid the afflicted.
    — Mary McNamara, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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