Take one battered car, an overloaded lorry or a crowded bus.

Pictures on social media showed his battered car, smeared in dust and with a broken bumper, on the side of the road.

Their worldly possessions amount to a second-hand sofa, a 30-year-old gas stove, a recycled laptop and a battered car.

We hire a battered car to tour the island, visiting unspoilt, beaches where we collect armfuls of small shells, which we will display one day, 'when we have a house'.

On a patch of scrubland next to the security gates, two old men park a battered car and admire the minarets, two finished and the other four not far behind.

Whichever party wins will inherit a battered economy, 3m unemployed and a wave of people having their homes repossessed.

Our battered economy doesn't have the time to wait for a vaccine.

Now, in the process of rebuilding our battered economy, we have an ideal opportunity to adopt a positive and supportive approach to second-start entrepreneurs.

And with the president's focus on restoring the battered economy at home, he has travelled little, putting more pressure on her.

We must hope they can devise new firms that hire staff, generate exports, pay tax and rebuild our battered economy, and turn around enterprises battered by the lockdown.

There were times when a battered suitcase without wheels, and some large books on baroque art, might have added up to a perfectly normal, civilised package.

A ripped and battered suitcase was found on the island's east coast yesterday.

For the next three-and-a-half months, he'll be living out of this one battered suitcase.

Its edges are menaced by wire fencing and corrugated iron; the steps and furnishings are dozens of battered suitcases.