1. Her sandals were old and somewhat beaten-up, but very comfortable.

2. Who was that beaten-up old bag wearing my clothes?

3. If Richard drove a beaten-up car, it seemed that nobody could reasonably ask for anything more themselves.

4. This guy looked like a beaten-up spider-monkey mutant.

5. She is in a floral skirt, 9)tights, ballet slippers, and a 10)beaten-up leather jacket.

6. Led by a rally in beaten-up bank stocks, Greek equities climbed 2.5 per cent and Italy's main index jumped 3.8 per cent.

7. In 2009 investors piled into beaten-up stocks that had been pounded in 2008. Many of these were shares that did not pay dividends, and many were also favored targets of short-sellers.

8. THE BEATEN-UP RED car crunched up the driveway and came to a halt outside an English manor house.

9. From a beaten-up gnome statue to a pair of panties, see photos.

10. Suppose you have a money manager with a talent for finding beaten-up companies with hidden value.

11. “If you have a face-lift, you really look like a beaten-up fighter. It becomes real[/beaten-up.html], ” he says.

12. The most exciting summer of my life was spent in a beaten-up Chevrolet Impala.

13. With the European economy slowing and more European politicians battling with angry electorates, the question is whether the continent has any more rabbits to pull out of its beaten-up hat.

14. NEW YORK (Reuters) - As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious investors will look to earnings reports from major retailers for signs of life in the beaten-up consumer.

15. This is not just the growing tendency of the very rich to dress scruffily and drive beaten-up cars, as described by David Brooks in "Bobos in Paradise".

16. Zhao Cai, a 66-year-old knife sharpener, is one of the old-timers who can still be found wandering around with a beaten-up toolbox that doubles as a bench.