Mary is a battered woman.

Battered, bruised, you start again.

The firemen battered down the door.

Over the past generation, the term we've used synonymous with beaten is battered, so we have Mary was battered.

I battered and scattered the fools from my way.

I never once thought of myself as a battered wife.

He had an old pickup truck and a big, battered mower.

To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land.

As it floats along, it is battered by waves, melts, and smashes into land and sometimes other icebergs.

So now Mary's very identity Mary is a battered woman is what was done to her by John in the first instance.

Tom Skeleton, the ancient stage doorkeeper, sat in his battered armchair, listening as the actors came up the stone stairs from their dressing rooms.

Seen from afar, the bright and everlasting stars seem utterly remote from our drab and battered world, where change and corruption are the norm!

Seen from afar, the bright and everlasting stars seem utterly remote from our drab and battered world, where change and corruption are the norm!

One, we battered down the doors of the insurance companies, and we actually got TEMPT a machine that let him communicate a Stephen Hawking machine.

Recently we've been battered with the idea that maybe we didn't even have our own creation event, here on earth, which people didn't like much.

The game has been remade, released, and ported to dozens of systems over the past 25 years ensuring that Marian will be battered and Damsel'ed for each new generation to enjoy.

My friends, human nature is exactly the same as it was when my ancestor probably it was my ancestor got his hands around the neck of the last Neanderthal, and battered the bastard to death.

Tomorrow, I am going to Cairo, and I'm so moved that I will be with women in Cairo who are V Day women, who are opening the first safe house for battered women in the Middle East.

I've battered my head against a stone wall for eight years and all because the man who owns the town's factory also controls the town council and his factory is the biggest contributor to smog in the entire district.

What women lined up to tell me was how they were raped, and how they were battered, and how they were beaten, and how they were gang raped in parking lots, and how they were incested by their uncles.

And there was a lady with a sign, a very simple sign, a kind of battered looking blonde lady, and the sign was made out of Bristol board, as we say in these parts, and it was made with a marker.

Would you think that you could go to Paradise without experiencing the kind of suffering others have experienced before you? Distress and afflictions battered them until the Messenger and the believers said, When will God send help? Certainly God's help is near.

So that people who you would think would be battered by poverty, or disease, or whatever, can pull themselves up out of it, sometimes with a helping hand, and take their part in society, and take their part in changing the world.

And by the way, one of the things that really bothers me about some of the rhetoric against feminists and others who have built the battered women's and rape crisis movements around the world is that somehow, like I said, that they're anti male.